Word: strawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Characterizing the recent "America First" campaign of Mayor W. H. Thompson of Chicago as a political gesture unworthy of serious attention by thinking people, S. H. Strawn of Chicago, president of the American Bar Association, stated to a CRIMSON representative last night that Thompson's efforts to "chase King George out of America" were humiliating and childish...
...Strawn, who was in Cambridge to address the students of the Law School in Austin North last night under the auspices of the Law School Society of the Phillips Brooks House, stated that the feeling between England, Canada, and the United States must continue to be one of friendship and trust, because of common language ties and economic relations...
...King George will of course not sue Mayor Thompson for his slanderous remarks, but libel is perhaps the term that should be applied to the charges male," was Strawn's summary of the Chicago mayor's campaign: "That the present agitation is a publicity move is proved by the fact that many of the books which have been destroyed were placed in the schools during Mayor Thompson's administration. The whole affair is apparently an effort to attract attention...
...Strawn left the discussion of the Chicago mayor with this final remark, and turned to the subject of his address at the Law School, which was suggested by a misstatement of the lawyer's place in modern life in a recent magazine article entitled "Officers of the Court...
...Strawn, senior partner of the firm of Winston, Strawn, and Shaw of Chicago, is one of the outstanding men in the legal profession. His subject at tonight's meeting, open to all members of the Law School, will be "Legal Education from the Point of View of a Practitioner...