Word: models
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traced the evolution of the United States common law judge from his English derivation to his present day status of an umpire on the bench. His remarks emphasized one of the most significant trends of American polity, the sole important deviation from the canons set up by our English model. This is the American attitude toward the judiciary which has stripped the common law judge of his former despotic powers and reduced him to a mere figurehead...
Whether any advantages have been derived from the abandonment of the English model, however, is a question which Dean Pound does not attempt to answer. He points out that in taking an independent course we have lost any benefit which might accrue from judicial experience, judicial empiricism, and independent courts. This is preferable, however, to undergoing that strong reaction which invariably follows on the heels of judicial depotism. A few dominating figures on the bench might illustrate very well the advantages of a strong independent judge but, after their passing comes lax criminal law, in the throes of which, according...
Last week, Detroiters introduced another new model. It had no balloon tires, no windshield, no horn. It was a mayor not a motor. It was Mayor John Christian Lodge who won office without benefit of one campaign speech, one political promise, one rooster-boost. Wearing a new grey suit and looking not unlike Henry Ford, Mayor Lodge offered his right hand to all-comers. Policemen gripped so hard that Mayor Lodge, wincing but glad, had to give others his left hand. When subordinate city officials were brought forward for formal introduction, Mayor Lodge called them by their first names...
...sedan to sell in the $800 class?the Essex at $795. President Edward G. Wilmer of Dodge Bros, spent more than $67,000 to hire Will Rogers, Fred & Dorothy Stone and Paul Whiteman's Orchestra to entertain over the radio and incidentally to announce Dodge Bros.' new 6-cylinder model, the Victory Six. John North Willys cut prices on all Whippet models and priced one, a sport coupe, at $545, which is $5 less than the price of the corresponding Ford model. And William Crapo Durant made the prices of his 4-cylinder Star match those of the Ford...
...common divisor for all of the 300 cars shown. Body type was no modulus, nor price, nor size as measured by wheelbase. Yet price considered with size, as arranged in the following tables, might give some clue. Because every motor manufacturer produces a four-door sedan or a model very like one, the data pertains to that type...