Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Coolidge sub-cabinet-William Joseph Donovan and Henry Herrick Bond-lately formed a law firm in Washington. They called the partnership Donovan & Bond. It made a hole in the Treasury-the post Mr. Bond had occupied as Assistant Secretary. Last week President Hoover very neatly filled that hole by the appointment of Walter Ewin Hope, Manhattan lawyer. Princeton men throughout the land felt happier because their college had been accorded greater representation in official Washington by this "drafting" of one of their distinguished members...
...clutter sprawling over the prairie with a main street two miles long. In this motley oil town's brief career have been committed 40 murders, with not a single conviction. The killing of District Attorney John A. Holmes last month finally prodded Governor Dan Moody to declare martial law in Borger, to send in National Guardsmen of the 56th Cavalry Brigade under the command of Brigadier General Jacob F. Wolters...
Last week Borger was cleaned up. General Wolters, satisfied, left for Houston and his law practice. Said he: "Well, we finished the job at Borger. The Sheriff, the Mayor, the City Commissioners, the Justice of the Peace and the Constables resigned, and for good measure we took the resignation of an involved member of the legislature. . . . With the new officials whom we installed . . . Hutchinson County will be the tamest county in Texas. It was a great...
...Congressman M. Alfred Michaelson was allowed "free entry" for ponderous baggage, which, on investigation, was found to contain kegged gallons of rum, bottled quarts of strong liquors. A U. S. judge at Key West harkened to the Congressman's plea that the liquor belonged to his brother-in-law Walter Gramm. Congressman Michaelson was exonerated (TIME, May 20). Last week another U. S. judge at Key West accepted Brother-in-law Gramm's plea of guilty, fined him $1,000 and costs...
...Lincoln was written by John Drinkwater to interpret its hero for the English. Thousands of U. S. citizens saw it in Manhattan a decade ago, many went two and three times. Frank McGlynn still looks like Lincoln, makes him a compassionate and credible figure from his rustic days at law until the dark moment when John Wilkes Booth creeps toward the door of the red-plush Presidential...