Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbia, In 1885 Mrs. Belle Case La Toilette (wife of the Senator from Wisconsin) received from the University of Wisconsin the first de- gree of LL.B. ever given to a woman. Today woman lawyers, though few in numbers compared to men, can be found throughout the fabric of the legal world. From Mabel Walker Willebrandt (one of the United States Assistant Attorney Generals), Judge Florence E. Allen (on the Ohio Supreme Bench), and Edith Newman (advisor to General Crowder in drafting Cuban banking laws) to a multitude of women in private law offices, they are scattered everywhere. When the first...
...part in the executive end of the Government. Governor General Harrison allowed the formation of a new body, the Council of State. This is comprised of the members of the Cabinet and the two officers above named. Osmena was elected Vice President of this body. It has no legal standing. Nevertheless, it took over the duties of the Cabinet, which for practical purposes ceased to exist, and Osmena was practically Prime Minister...
...most important problems yet to be settled by separate negotiation, included in the first Treaty, are: settlement of the Ottoman Debt; regulation of concessions; settlement of the Mosul question and the Iraq-Kurdistan frontier; conclusion ol separate judicial treaties granting rights of complaint to foreign legal advisers in place of capitulations. Although the treaty is signed, it must still be ratified by the Powers concerned before it becomes valid...
...credit there was, that was due to the negotiators for the rapidity with which that great question was solved, arose from the fact that neither the Governor of the Bank of England, nor I, nor Mr. Mellon, had ever at any stage of our lives been members of the legal profession...
...Baldwin's remarks were intended as a compliment to Secretary Mellon, and, incidentally, to himself. Said a prominent Kansan : " To the legal profession as a whole, and to a very long line of legal statesmen, some of whom are still living, the Prime Minister's words are, to say the least, a grave and unnecessary injustice...