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...unwritten law in Britain that the Royal Family shall make no public statement on a controversial political subject. Edward of Wales, speaking after Mr. Bingham. came extremely close to breaking the rules when he added...
That the Corporation should have finally found it necessary to put into so many words a regulation which for years has been considered one of the unwritten laws of medical ethics is an indication of the tremendous pressure that was brought to bear upon it by the medical world and even the petitions signed at the Medical School. Drinker's performance has once and for all proved that the hands off policy of the University must come to an end, and that the medical code can no longer be left unwritten while a profiteer usurps the profession...
...this point the audience gasps in total surprise, morally convicting the brother of first-degree murder. The picture, how ever, proceeds to show the audience its error, in the courtroom. A novelty is Prosecutor John Miljan's jeering speech: "There is no such law as the unwritten law. . . . Our legislators do not say : 'This is the law but we will not annoy the governor by writing it down.' ... A woman's honor is her own and the shortest word in the English language will protect any woman's honor, and that word...
...Salonica the unwritten Greek law about Jews worked again last week. Eight Greeks, shown by overwhelming testimony to have set the Jewish quarter of the city afire last June, were called by the Greek prosecutor "guilty of excesses which are a blot on civilization"-but he asked acquittal for six of the blotters and only four months imprisonment for the other two. Promptly the Greek jury, unwilling to punish even two blotters, acquitted all of them...
...himself crossing the Radcliffe Yard not long ago and emerged on the other side with gratifying editorial comments on the subject of how times do change. But we trust that, as the dinner gong and the clapper, like the cat and the fiddle, saunter down the long halls of unwritten history together, the former will present to the latter a distinctly cold shoulder, after all as any discerning dinner gong should. Radcliffe Daily...