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Particular branches of the law are assigned to individual men who rewrite and clarify all the existing data on the subject and then submit a draft of their findings to be discussed by the whole Institute, which is composed of several hundred prominent lawyers, judges, and law professors...
...Congress voted a selective draft and President Wilson proclaimed June 5 as Registration Day. So early a date would have been impossible had not a daring young officer named Hugh Samuel Johnson in the Provost Marshal General's office presumed to draw up and have printed in advance 45,000,000 registration questionnaires. Major Johnson, who had also written the draft bill, promptly mailed his cards to 80,000 sheriffs and mayors. Governors divided their States into registration districts of approximately 30,000 inhabitants. Newspaper notices told prospective draftees where to report-at their regular election polling places...
...that he might shortly spend $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 on a jobless census. Since he aimed to employ some 600,000 white-collar idle for the job, it seemed highly unlikely that the census would be conducted along the quick and economical lines of the 1917 draft at a cost of $300,000, as proposed in his column this week by United Feature Columnist Hugh Samuel Johnson...
...making statistical tables dance jigs for the Government. Mr. Breining found a way to calculate interest on the Bonus starting from 1918 instead of 1925 and still let the Treasury off for something like half a billion dollars. Charles F. Boots, who gets $7,000 for helping the Senate draft its bills, put Actuary Breining's mathematical gymnastics into legal language. Then Senator Harrison had his bill...
...Blame.' Counsel for the defense handed up copies of various U. S. magazines and newspapers, pointing out that everything which was found in Roiderer's notebook had already been factually reported by ordinary journalists. The five judges of the People's Court took 45 minutes to draft a verdict of acquittal which would not be too dead a give-away of the New Justice. They could not say that Roiderer's jotted charges of homosexuality, sadism and camouflaged aggressiveness by some of the highest leaders of Germany were untrue, for their truth is a byword...