Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oddly enough the New's United Press man had overlooked it, and of course the Associated Press had omitted it, but the President's sentences to the United Press immediately preceding the "Whenever any section . . ." sentence quoted by the Post for its own purposes, were these...
Since the founding of Massachusetts Colony, capital cases have been set apart for special public care. A law of 1641, recorded in the first section of "The General Laws of the Massachusetts Colony" published in October 1659, provides that capital cases are to be judged by the General Court" (Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, 1887, 1). During the nineteenth century, they were customarily brought at once before the Supreme Judicial Court, and before a quorum of that Court. The General Statues of 1860 provides that four justices constitute a quorum of the court; and that in capital cases. If the prisoner...
...drastic step was taken which carried this process of reducing the safeguard of capital cases to the final limit. The court shall be held by one of the justices, and when so held shall have and exercise all the power and jurisdiction committed to said court": the section making special provision for capi- tal cases was repealed (Acts and Resolves, 1910, 555). This is the present situation. The General Laws of 1921 simply state that "The court shall be held by one of the justices" (212,2); and that. "The court shall have original jurisdiction of all crimes...
...N.S.F.A. has been organized only a few years and last year, for the first time it sent over 200 students to Europe on its tours. The tours this year will cover every section of Western Europe and have been so arranged that students wishing to spend more time in one section of a country in order to study it may do so while others wishing to make a most inclusive trip may cover more territory...
During the first week after the vacation, a triangular debate will be held between sections 8, 14, and 17, on the subject, "Resolved: That this house favors the nomination of Calvin Coolidge for another term as President of the United States". Three students of neutral sections will judge, and one student from a neutral section, will preside...