Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dame Justice weighing long the doubtful right...
...According to Article V of the trade agreement, Mr. Khinchuk [head of the Soviet Trade delegation, but absent last week at the League of Nations Economic Conference (see THE LEAGUE)] enjoys all of the rights and immunities enjoyed by the official representatives of other foreign powers in Britain. The right of Mr. Khinchuk to the above-mentioned privileges was confirmed quite recently by the Foreign Office note...
Last week a conference of the executives of British non-self-governing areas convened in London to discuss this and other projects. Most of those present were, of course, Governors of Crown Colonies. To them spoke their Chief, Right Honorable Leopold Charles Maurice Stennet Amery, His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies...
Justice Peters retired and weighed long the doubtful right, weighed it carefully for 16 days. Then he oped the shell. He declared: "The Irish Republic never existed as a government de facto . . . and the Irish Free State could not, therefore, succeed it." From this logical conclusion Justice Peters gave judgment against both the Irish Republic (i. e. Mr. de Valera) and the Irish Free State. He directed, instead, that all legal costs arising from the action shall be paid out of the $2,500,000, and that what remains shall then be divided pro rata among the original contributors...
Less brilliant, more statistical than M. Tardieu's new book is a detailed analysis* of U. S. institutions by Andre Siegfried, Professor at the School of Political Sciences, Paris. He says of President Coolidge: "Small, uninspiring . . . dislikes games, prefers prosaic walks . . . skillful politician . . . eager to do what is right." Of the Governor of New York, Alfred E. Smith, Professor Siegfried thinks: "Excellent Governor . . . born in the slum quarters . . . prestige mainly owing to his origin...