Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest lawyers of the U. S." were presented to the Judiciary Committee of both Houses by a delegation from the American Bar Association. The two lawyers are among the most noted of those who go frequently into court to look upon the faces of Federal judges, and both are onetime nominees for President - Charles E. Hughes and John W. Davis. They had come to argue for a bill increasing the salaries of Federal judges. Mr. Hughes snapped his fingers: "I don't care that for all your Fourth of July orations about love for America. The way to show...
...repair a window screen. John W. Ogren of the Association of Commerce delivered a ten-minute speech on "What the Public Expects of Its Schools," and the pupils were asked to tell what had impressed them about the speech. Carl Bismarck Roden, of the Public Library made them look up the life of John Quincy Adams, to illustrate the use of reference devices. S. E. Thomason, business manager of the Chicago Tribune, brought out a bank deposit slip and made the pupils total it up- a test of reliability in practical arithmetic. Other tests were given, by qualified testers...
...good English custom lets no man, however sunken in estate, go undefended at his trial by law. The judge told the prisoner to look about and choose whom he would from the gathering of barristers that lounged there in genteel boredom waiting for their clients' names to be read off. Whom he chose would have to serve him, willy-nilly...
...wondered at that Asiatics look askance at the League of Nations and want more proof that it will be a help rather than their undoer? If the present attitude toward Asiatics does not change then Asia for Asiatics will be a justifiable slogan...
...handled in America there is little likelihood that we shall soon do so. But the action taken is to be welcomed, and it is a significant step in the right direction. Twenty-five years from now, when the Court has builder a great body of jurisprudence, we shall probably look back on the contests of this period with little satisfaction...