Word: legally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establishment of arbitration as a permanent means of settlement of international dispute. It closes with a resolution that the President of the United States be petitioned to take the initiative in negotiating treaties with other nations, beginning with Great Britain, providing for the arbitration of all pecuniary claims and legal issues arising from injury to persons or property, and the obligatory submission to arbitration of all disputes which diplomacy fails to settle
...Hovey, of course, believes socialism and anarchy the same. He does not understand that the interest of college professors, such as the eminent authorities on jurispudence of the Harvard Law School, in this famous case centers upon a legal and not a political point. Nor can this be laid to the fact that he is a stock broker, a Bostonian. One of the most pleasing of modern phenomena is that of the interest which business men, college professors, men from all the categories of current existence, have taken in the finer points of this attempt to probe the Sacco-Vanzetti...
More than any other need of these hurried times is that of calm thinking and sharp differentiations. If this Boston stock broker had looked up in such a dictionary as college teachers often edit the meaning of the word, "socialist", had he studied this notorious legal case, he would never have written such bunk...
...close an interest in legal lumber may blind the judiciary to the merits of the individual trees of the forest. The English Cabinet System, disclaiming the principle of checks and balances upon which the Sacco-Vanzetti defense is appealing to the Governor, nevertheless guards against too close a perspective by mingling expert under-secretaries with non-expert politician in administering its public business...
...Originally named Samuel Barnet, but at 14, just before his first stage appearance, he was accidentally dubbed Sam Bernard by the stage manager, who misunderstood his shy murmur. He kept the misnomer, made it legal...