Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drunk is he who from the floor Can rise again to drink once more: But drunk is he who prostrate lies And cannot cither drink or rise." I am also reminded of the definition of Dean Gulley of Wake Forest College Law School; that...
...Young appointment had no overt politics in it. However, Des Moines, Iowa, may jubilate over Midwest preference. Clarence Young was born nearby, attended Drake university there, and after being graduated from Yale's law school in 1910, practiced law there until the War. After the War he was executive secretary of the Des Moines Municipal Research Bureau, which has made that community one of the few in the U. S. with little political graft...
...third Yale man in the sub-cabinet with charge of aviation. The others: Frederick Trubee Davison, 33, Yale '18, Columbia Law School; David Sinton Ingalls, 33, Yale '20, Harvard Law School. All three were War flyers. Mr. Young, overseas 18 months, was prisoner in Austria for five months...
...than Vice President Curtis, less tycoonesque than Secretary Lamont. While Yale men point with pride to Statesman Stimson, and Harvard men to Secretary Adams, Secretary Good is satisfying to that large group of citizens whose background includes the state universities. Indeed the University of Michigan, where "Jim" Good studied law after being graduated from little Coe College ('92), was quick and glad to claim him, in a sort of for-God-for-country-and-for-Michigan alumni article last spring, along with Secretaries Lamont and Hyde (full-fledged Michiganders). as part of the new Michigan delegation in the Cabinet?...
Such sallies caused no flicker of a smile on Senator Smoot's worn face. Like a litany he repeated the statistics of the new bill: "... 431 changes . . . 177 increases ... 254 decreases ... 13% of all increases in agricultural schedules. . . . Revenue under present law: $516,581,344; under the House bill: $646,014,545; under the Senate bill...