Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Magna Cum Laude...
...Graustein is not a paper man but a lawyer, a utilitarian and a financier. Voluble, aggressive, brilliant, he finds it difficult to think in any except expansive terms. Son of a German-born Boston milk dealer, he romped through Harvard in two years, graduating magna cum laude. After Harvard Law School, he entered the Boston firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins, learned about paper while reorganizing a paper company, was pushed into International by the Phipps interests. President Graustein's prime paper policy was volume at almost any cost. International now dominates the kraft industry, which mushroomed...
Daughter Mary graduated from Wooster magna cum laude. The best the boys could do was cum laude. She is the wife of the administrative head of Allahabad University's Ewing Christian College (1,500 students) in India...
...TIME, Dec. 16, under the report of the trial of Lord de Clifford, you say, "Under the Magna Charta it is the right of every Briton to be tried by his peers-i. e. . . . a lord by the House of Lords." Why does TIME imply that this right originated in the Magna Charta? The right of a lord to be tried by his peers was just as much the law during the reign of William the Conqueror as during the reign of King John. This custom originated in the early Middle Ages and was the right of every vassal (lord...
That technicality made it necessary for de Clifford to be tried by the House of Lords, since under the Magna Charta a peer indicted for treason or a felony which includes homicide, rape, bigamy, burglary, robbery, larceny, counterfeiting and forgery must be tried by his peers. Such a trial costs thousands of dollars and, since the county in which the crime is supposed to have taken place must pay, a tradition exists for piling on every expense that can be thought of. For last week's trial, which cost some $50,000, it was not enough to install...