Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criminal law in the U. S. is a disgrace to civilization." Thus said William Howard Taft in 1905, and thus he was quoted recently in a booklet issued by the Harvard Law School. William D. Guthrie, president of the New York City Bar Association, urged that the statement be deleted at once from the Harvard booklet. He had the right to be heard, because he had already contributed 10,000 to the Harvard Law School campaign to raise $5,000,000 for legal research, in which interest the booklet was published. Said he: "The phrase has done more harm than...
Meanwhile, last week, able law, yer Henry Lewis Stimson wrote to Mr. Guthrie that he could convince him of the truth of Mr. Taft's onetime statement by a ten-minute trip through the Criminal Courts, Building in Manhattan...
Queen Marie of Rumania received a cablegram from Bucharest last week, at Louisville, Ky. A few hours later she had engaged by telegraph staterooms C-47 to C-53† inclusive on the Cunarder Berengaria sailing five days later for Europe. Next day Queen Marie authorized a statement...
...will make it pay. Rarely, when he is in Chicago, does he miss a performance. In the entr'acte he goes behind to encourage the singers and they in turn speak of him as "Papa Insull" and give him their money to invest. They repeat with awe the statement that he has never lost a penny for himself or anyone else, and that he still has the first shilling he made when he worked for Editor Bowles. That he likes music there can be no doubt, but some say that the tune he likes best is the mysterious...
...inspector appeared several days ago, according to J. F. Brady, janitor of the dormitory, and examined the clouded corridors, the mauve bed-spreads, and the soot-stained porticos of the dormitory. His attitude was non-committal but he ventured the statement before leaving that ordinances against soft-coal smoke had been seldom enforced since the recurrent coal strikes of the past few winters. He has not been seen since...