Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...With the lawyer, it is much the same as with the doctor. The true lawyer's idea of his profession does not consist in the ordinary routine expressed by crime, retribution and a fee, but in abolishing the conditions which lead to sin. The effectiveness of this method for preventing crime itself is illustrated by the improvement obtained among the Labrador fishermen, and by the present result of prohibition in the state of Maine. Although the liquor dealers have done their best to make the prohibition law ineffective in that state, yet, since its introduction, the amount of crime...
...medical profession a lawyer cannot truly become great unless he has courage of and the willingness to stand up for his convictions. In short, the real object of his life can only be obtained by reincarnating in himself the spirit of Christ...
...spell of the West, however, was too powerful for him, and instead of settling down as a lawyer in Philadelphia as he had intended, he spent most of his time in Wyoming and Arizona; and in 1891 took up literary work as a profession. In 1896 he published the first book which brought him notice, "Red Men and White," a collection of short stories of the West, and from that time until his death he steadily continued to write...
...letters, Mr. Bryce is very well known in America. His great work "The American Commonwealth," which appeared in 1888, was the first in which the institutions of the United States had been thoroughly discussed from the point of view of a historian and a constitutional lawyer. After a visit to South Africa in 1897, he published a volume of "Impressions" of that country, which carried great weight when the Boer War was being discussed. In his early life he was a notable mountain-climber, ascending Mount Ararat in 1876; and, later, was author of a book on mountain climbing...
...position on the Postal Rate Commission offered to him several weeks ago by President Taft. Associate Justice Hughes, LL.D. '10, of the Supreme Court of the United States, is chairman of the Commission, and Lawrence Maxwell, lecturer in the law department of the University of Michigan and a prominent lawyer of Cincinnati, is the other member. The commission was created just at the close of the last session of Congress. During the coming summer it will investigate the justness of the proposed increase in the second-class postage rates which is being bitterly fought by the popular magazines...