Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...disposition of rich business men and corporations to avoid litigation and "beat the law" so far as they safely can, and even farther have constituted a vicious circle of evil tendencies in both theory and practice, the effects of which on public opinion in the United States have been plain, widespread and deeply to be deplored...
...published decisions will have on his re-election. As an elected judge grows older and therefore less able to resume practice, he inevitably becomes more timorous and less independent, particularly as he cannot look forward to any pension when he fails to be re-elected. It is perfectly plain that in the long run an elective judiciary cannot command the popular respect which an appointive judiciary commands; and the fact that the great majority of American judges are elective accounts in good measure for the dissatisfaction of the public with American judicial procedure...
...Society held in Brooks House Wednesday evening, officers for 1912-14 were elected as follows: president, T. O. Freeman '14, of Medfield; vice-president, G. N. Plimpton '14, of Buffalo, N. Y.; secretary, W. G. Rice, Jr., '14, of Albany, N. Y.; treasurer, N. Curtis, Jr., '14, of Jamaica Plain...
...Jamaica Plain, Mass...
First Marshal--Percy Langdon Wendell, of Jamaica Plain...