Word: reprimands
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After having filled its columns, day after day last November, with the unsavory details of a matrimonial law action that involved miscegenation, the New York World despatched a scorching editorial reprimand at the heads of the prosecuting attorneys for ever having taken the case to court (TIME, Dec. 7). The World spoke of "the larger interests" of the attorneys' client (the family of Leonard Kip Rhinelander, of Manhattan); maintained that the "realities of the affair lay in a realm of feeling of which the actors themselves were hardly aware"; protested that since the attorneys were not emotionally involved they...
Sometimes a lawyer employed in some public cause betrays the honor of his calling by offensive methods and is scored in the press. But perhaps never before in the history of the American Bar has any gentleman of the profession received such a devastating reprimand as that which the New York World, on its editorial page, launched last week at the barristers employed in the suit of Leonard Kip Rhinelander against his wife, Alice Jones...
...martial in U. S. military history," exclaimed the effusive spokesmen of quantity and magnitude last week with reference to the trial of Colonel William Mitchell about to begin. There was much in what they said. The court martial of Benedict Arnold in 1779-80, which resulted in a mild reprimand from General Washington, was not so sensational as the treason which followed it. The trial of Aaron Burr for treason was perhaps of equal national interest, but it was not a military trial but a trial before the U. S. Circuit Court at Richmond. The nearest parallel to the Mitchell...
Under the 96th Article of War, Colonel Mitchell can be sentenced to anything from reprimand to dismissal (but not imprisonment). The findings of the Court will bs reviewed by a Board of three, by the Secretary of War, and by the President. The reviewing authority has the power to reduce or modify any sentence imposed, but not to change the verdict. If there is an acquittal, the reviewing authorities may disapprove it but cannot impose sentence...
...Lord Mayor of London: "I believe that if the time ever comes when the British Empire is menaced by an external enemy, you may count on every man, every drop of blood, every ship and every dollar of your kindred across the sea." President Taft had to reprimand him for that...