Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps Secretary Mellon is right in this defense, but there is an angle of the question, which he has overlooked. Would the stalwart sailors fight at all for their dear ones at home (considering the dear ones in other ports) if those dear ones were deprived of their invaluable cosmetics? Or, contrarywise, would the women of the United States sacrifice their face powder to the lesser cause of gunpowder...
...president, the popular election of senators, the initiative, referendum, and recall the people have been tending toward supreme control of their officials. One of the main things in the way of this progressive movement is the appointment of the federal judiciary by the president. Until the people gain the right to elect their own judges the Hamiltonian principle that the people are not qualified to govern themselves will continue and progressive policies can never become dominant." The query as to whether this would not bring politics into the judiciary brought the frank reply. "There can never be more politics...
While Cardinal Gasparri held out for and secured to the Papacy the technical right of appointment, Dr. Benes was able to cover this trump with the proviso that Papal appointments in Czechoslovakia shall be made only with the consent of the State...
...busily drew up a lawyer's oath. He would have every lawyer fortify his oath of admission to the Bar, saying: "I swear I will join with my adversary in waiving a jury trial wherever and whenever it can possibly be done without the sacrifice of a fundamental right. I will join with my adversary in supporting a trial Justice in fair comment upon the evidence and reasonable direction to a jury on the facts. I will join with my adversary in fair concession of undisputed facts...
Songs are all right. They go handily from mouth to mouth. But certainly the sovereign states of the U. S. have matters of more permanent value than dithyrambs. Texas has. What does it do with them? It puts them into a new magazine called Bunker's Monthly, 160 pages of eye-easy type. Does Vermont (native state of Calvin Coolidge) fill as many pages each month with readable material of its own efforts? No. Does Iowa (home state of Average American Citizen Roy Lewis Gray) do as well...