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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such as is often passed permitting a jury to convict of murder without capital punishment would take care of less serious cases and of cases where there is a shadow of doubt...
...progressive society necessitate new legal codes and judicial methods. The average lawyer is too prone to cling to the traditional systems, which he absorbed in youth, without considering the advisability of their application today. State legislatures, for the most part, are composed of small-town lawyers too often bound not only by their legal but by the popular prejudices of their constituents. In such matters as this the opinion of the law expert, constantly in touch with all new ideas as well as familiar with the heritage of the past, may well be of significance in the determination of public...
Died. Ogden Mills, 72, Manhattan financier & philanthropist, father of Under-Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills; of pneumonia and complications; in Manhattan. The Mills millions were founded by Darius Ogden Mills, "Forty-Niner" and California banker. His son, Ogden Mills, was born in Sacramento, often revisited California. After being graduated from Harvard (1878) he spurred his father's enterprises, added to them (Mills hotels for poor workingmen; mines, real estate, banks, railroads, steamships, public utilities). He was a famed host, racing stableman, patron of the American Museum of Natural History. His sister is Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, relict...
...stage is reached, the progress of the affliction may easily be halted. The brown spots that come on the face or neck of farmers or any one who is exposed much to the sun, wind and rain may ultimately become cancers, but not at all necessarily so. They quite often are allowed to go neglected until they form a wart or a raised and rough portion of the skin. This may become scratched or irritated in some way and ultimately be a cancer, but by protection of the spots from the weather and sunlight or by treatment they...
...Taylor, a former practising lawyer, writes purely for dis-interested enjoyment, yet compares favorably with his professional contemporaries both in substance and in vitality. Particularly interesting to undergraduates should be the lectures of a man who is notable for having brought a penetrating simplicity into a field too often obscured by a cloud of technical detail...