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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legal questions involved are whether there is any such right of contribution, and if so, what part of the $23,000 should be contributed by the defendant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMES ARGUMENT REACHES FINALS | 1/14/1927 | See Source »

...distinct relief to hear that the Committee on Character and Fitness of Applicants for Admission to the New York Bar has decided that a college degree should be required of all applicants. Almost all of the college graduates applying for admission to the legal profession have been found to be "well fitted both in character and education." Perhaps seventy-five per cent of those with only secondary school education were considered "seriously deficient in general education and general background." The motive for choice of the law by the latter was generally hope of increased salary. Few of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARD KNOCKS VS. HISTORY | 1/11/1927 | See Source »

...duty of the President to administer and enforce the laws of the land, to advise the Congress on the state of the Union, etc. The Constitution does not require the President to be the great moral preceptor of the people. President Coolidge has taken unto himself this extra-legal duty, as has many another President. The late Theodore Roosevelt used to dispense moral pap while he was tossing the "big stick," like a juggler chatting with his audience while his eggs are in the air. President Coolidge, however, in his speech on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Trenton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moral Preceptor | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...said: "Isn't it nice that those Nicaraguans are fixed up at last?" But shrewder observers in Washington and all of Central America knew that President Diaz's soup was not without sediment. The chief trouble was and still is that Nicaragua has another "legal" President-Dr. Juan Sacasa, Liberal, the Vice President who came into power when President Solorzano resigned a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Foreign Policy | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...inevitable that these two "legal" Presidents and their backers should do battle. Nicaraguan squabbles are no great cataclysms, since the peacetime strength of their army is 2,500 men. Mexico complicated matters by selling arms to President Sacasa's Liberals, who were doing well in a military way until Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer landed U. S. Marines from his flagship, the U. S. S. Rochester, on the Mosquito (eastern) Coast of Nicaragua a fortnight ago. Acting on instructions from the Department of State, Rear Admiral Latimer set about to maintain the Bluefields neutral zone, ordered armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Foreign Policy | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

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