Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last March, as a result of an investigation brought about by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the House voted, 302 to 62, that Judge English of East St. Louis, Ill., should face an impeachment trial on charges of "usurpation of powers and other high misdemeanors." Among other things, Judge English is charged with illegal manipulation of bankruptcy funds, with using profane language from the bench, with threatening attorneys and juries. Although his resignation does not openly admit his guilt, it is an admission that he is unwilling to risk an impeachment trial...
...back of the tidewater where famed Ben Tillman led a revolt of the agrarians and the "poor whites" 30 years ago. They seized both the political and industrial reins of the state. These "new" South Carolinians are described as trying to be both boosters and oldtime Southern gentlemen. The result shows itself in blatherskite politicians like its Senator Cole Blease.* This new gentry is composed of many who believe that, if they join the Ku Klux Klan and goad the Negroes, they are thereby keeping alive the traditions of the Old South. They are quite different from the old Southern...
...discover something of value is plenty of spare time and a Saturday pencil. This may explain the appearance of so many neat columns of figures nestling in the pages of newspapers and other periodicals, but that is about as far as most of the explanations carry. The not result of all the compilations additions divisions and applications or most statistics is nil. However the labor of bringing the faces together keeps a great many people out of misdirect and most of it is good clean...
...improvement in the legislative and judicial branches of the government. "Vast funds have been given to research in the fields of medicine and science," read the appeal that opened the drive, "but in the extremely important field of jurisprudence there have been no large endowments for research that would result in as lasting good as medical and scientific discoveries. Hence the appeal of the Law School is to all the nation as a whole...
...Figaro in the shape of a conference at Amsterdam to do something about the severely detrimental economic effects of rheumatism. The statisticians of this gathering have discovered that by limbering up the world three million days would be saved annually; they have the will to accomplish this result, "mais comment?" as Le Figaro concludes...