Word: personally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came the lights. Near the screen in person sat the milkman. Harold Roller, his head bowed. On trial for the robberies, he had maintained his innocence. The jury retired, deliberated 14 minutes, pronounced him guilty...
...Fitzhenry judicial reasoning: The Jones Law raised liquor violations from misdemeanors to felonies. The half-for-gotten misprision of felonies law (1790) makes any person who fails to report a felony within his personal knowledge himself guilty of a felony. Therefore, ruled Judge Fitzhenry...
...person who buys a drink of liquor from, a bootlegger and does not make a report to the authorities has committed a felony and is equally guilty as the person making the sale. . . . Whether it was wise to make hundreds of thousands or even millions of people of the U. S. felons in the eyes of the law is a matter addressed not to this court but to Congress. . . . The wisdom of the law is one thing, the constitutionality is another...
...Rogers '09, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has consented to read selections from the speeches of Secretary Mellon and President Hoover which were made in relation to this film. Tickets for the performance may be secured from Professor William Emerson, at 491 Boylston Street, by application in person or by letter...
...glasses," or for illiterates "inability to distinguish forms and objects with sufficient distinctness." The Society prefers the British legal description: "too blind to be able to read the ordinary school books used by children," and "unable to perform any work for which eyesight is essential." A one-eyed person is not blind technically. Nor is the usual near-sighted person...