Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tuesday. Breakfast on the train. Registered at the Willard Hotel for a morning of law conferences (the Nickel Plate merger, for the Brothers Van Sweringen of Cleveland, is in his hands). Went to the Supreme Court Chambers at the Capitol. Lunched in the Senate restaurant on pie and buttermilk. . . . Conferred with Assistant Secretary of the Navy in charge of aviation F. Trubee Davison, presiding officer of the Crime Commission; meeting set for next day. Called at the War Department. Secretary Davis at Cabinet meeting. Conferred with General Pershing's secretary, Captain Adamson, about Cleveland's reception for General Pershing...
Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone of the U. S. Supreme Court had canse to congratulate himself. His son, Lauson Harvey Stone, Harvard graduate, was elected class president by his fellows of the senior class at the Columbia University Law School, Manhattan, where Associate Justice Stone long functioned (1910-24) as dean...
...Since, according to Bolivian law, only one person can be executed for a murder, a lottery was held to decide which of four convicted prisoners should die for the crime...
...law of Turkey prescribes that each new Grand National Assembly shall elect from among the assembled deputies a President of the Republic. The life of an Assembly is for four years and the term of the presidential office is ipso facto for the same period. There is no opposition...
...work threatened too much labor for his strength. He resigned his collateral work in Europe. John Gardner Murray, presiding bishop, at once communicated with another able churchman, rugged Bishop William Lawrence. Bishop Lawrence, 77, last June resigned from the Diocese of Massachusetts, where his coadjutor bishop and son-in-law Charles Lewis Slattery succeeded him. Bishop Lawrence told his superior that he could visit the nine European parishes and their appendages the requisite one time every three years, and Bishop Murray appointed him to the post forthwith...