Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court's ruling put an end to a suit begun in 1922 in the lower Federal courts by Samuel W. Lambert, learned physician of Manhattan, who sought to enjoin the Prohibition Unit from enforcing the provision concerning whiskey prescriptions. Justice Brandeis' opinion was upheld by Chief Justice Taft and associate Justices Holmes, Sanford, Van Devanter...
...three and a half million pounds per day. At present he is occupied only with a $100,000,000 railway terminal in Philadelphia, one nearly as costly in Cleveland, the world's hugest aquarium (Shedd), a $15,000,000 opera house and a super-power plant for Samuel Insull in Chicago. A book about such a son of Progress by the dean of Gothic America would be, in itself, an architectural portent...
...governor's most serious problems, as one pardon inevitably leads to a host of applications for others. Last week I was presented with 10,000 signatures urging clemency for Brooklyn Patrolman John J. Brennan, 28, condemned to the electric chair. On Jan. 2 one Samuel Krainen, shopkeeper, called at a Brooklyn police station, and identified Brennan as one who had created a disturbance in his shop when drunk. As a sergeant was thereupon removing Brennan's shield, Brennan fired a revolver at Krainen, killing him. Last week, during the long day preceding the hour for his electrocution, Brennan...
...Samuel Dodd Richards of St. Louis, Missouri...
...Samuel Meeks...