Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief Justice Charles W. Mason presided over the Johnston trial, administered the oath to the new Governor, then hurried away to prepare his own defense on impeachment charges against himself and two other justices of the State Supreme Court...
Reporter Owen, who wrote himself into a state when an ice slide recently endangered the party (TIME, Feb. 11), this time abstained from hysterics and heroics. Perhaps having heard echoes of the way some of his romantic writings have been received in the U. S., he let Harold June dictate a first-hand account of almost incredible winds in the Rockefeller Mountains...
...effect of the Root Formula is thus to leave the U.S. entirely free to divorce the World Court instantly at any time after the diplomatic marriage takes place. A novelty is the provision for direct, official communication between the U.S. State Department and the Secretariat of the League−an avenue of communication which does not exist at present. The form of protocol approved last week will now be submitted to the Council of the League, to the 52 states adherent to the World Court, and to the U.S. Senate−assuming, of course, that no previous hitch occurs. Last...
...France, famed as "The Peace Ship" The original Briand Peace Pact proposal was brought to the U.S. by Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick on the maiden voyage of the Ile de France (TIME, July 4, 1927); and "The Peace Ship" carried Secretary of State and Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg when he sailed to sign the Briand-Kellogg Pact Renouncing War in Paris (TIME...
Grave issues of state and politics sharply focused world interest, last week, on Edward of Wales and on the leaders of Great Britain's three political parties. The secret had leaked out−after months of official concealment−that President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State has been challenging the authority of the Crown Council as at present constituted. All ordinary powers of the King-Emperor were signed over by stricken George V (TIME, Dec. 17), to this Council, which consists of the Prime Minister, Lord High Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of York...