Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marie Carmichael Stopes, authoress of Married Love and Wise Parenthood, lost her libel suit against Dr. H. G. Sutherland, who accused her of "experimenting on poor women." The Lord Chief Justice set aside the verdict of the jury awarding her ?100 damages, stating that no evidence had been presented showing that the accusations made by Dr. Sutherland were founded upon ill will. He summed up Dr. Stopes' birth control activities as "a monstrous campaign." The learned Judge's opinion is not likely to be popular in London, where Dr. Stopes is believed to have done considerable good...
...there is another contest that calls for almost equal interest. The Glee Club's successive victories in the intercollegiate competitions have gradually raised the standard of college singing until the University's supremacy is seriously in doubt. The verdict of the judges in New York tonight will be almost as good news-matter as the hockey score...
...Poughkeepsie still another contest is to be hotly waged. The Freshman Debating Team is meeting the Vassar contingent on the moot subject of the Allied debt. But there the question of victory is less important for what can one expect? The verdict, in the English manner, is left at the mercy of the audience; unless the debate is waged in a darkened hall, or each member of the audience required to wear blinders, the verdict is pre-determined...
...smoke of a battle in Madison Square Garden holding Harry Greb's light-heavyweight championship of the world. But the smoke had hardly cleared when clouds of official disapproval rose to blur the brilliance of his honors. Not only did the metropolitan papers cast bitter reflections on the verdict of Judges Charles E. Miles, Charles Meighan and Referee Patsy Haley, but William Muldoon himself, Chairman of the State Athletic Commission, declared the decision "unjustifiable". He stated, however, that the verdict was official and that the State Commission would stand by it. Accordingly, Tunney will retain his doubtful honors until...
...reporter. "This action," declared Professor Hudson, "has long been awaited by a large part of the American republic. Instead of being hasty, it is rather delayed. For two years the statute of the Court has been before the American people. We have had ample opportunity to study it. Our verdict has been almost unanimous in its favor. Practically everybody who has written about it has approved the Court. I have yet to see a law journal which would disapprove it. Lawyers in every part of the world have greeted the establishment of the Court with jubilation...