Word: owens
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...improved into navigability by expenditure of any "reasonable" amount of money is "navigable." The court further held that the authority of the Government over any navigable stream "is as broad as the needs of commerce"-a definition which broadened the commerce clause of the Constitution almost immeasurably. Justices Owen Roberts and James C. McReynolds dissented vigorously, holding that ". . . then every creek in every State of the Union which has enough water ... to float a boat drawing two feet of water may be pronounced navigable. . . . Congress can create navigability by determining to improve a non-navigable stream...
Married. Helen Rudd Owen, 20 daughter of ex-Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Leavitt Owen Rohde, and granddaughter of William Jennings Bryan; and Walter William Harris Jr.; in Manhattan...
...British had any feeling of complacency last week it was not because of Frank Owen, a tall, rangy, bushy-haired newspaperman, who was born on the border of Wales 35 years ago and calls himself Sudeten Welsh. Nine years ago, after building himself into a Laborite problem child in the House of Commons, he lost his seat in a Tory landslide, took a crack at foreign corresponding, wound up on the London Evening Standard of Lord Beaverbrook, whom he looks on as "a promising lad from the Dominions." This month the passion for work which keeps Editor Owen...
...busts of Ben Franklin and other great printers, is open to the public. At monthly meetings members shoptalk of first editions and Renaissance engravings, entertain each other with addresses on "Pope as a Letter Writer," "Benjamin Franklin, Traveller," "The Terrible Gustave Dore." Members include Moneymen J. Pierpont Morgan, Owen D. Young, Baron Victor Rothschild, Typographers Frederic Goudy, Bruce Rogers, Publishers Charles Scribner, Arthur Hays Sulzberger (New York Times), Physician Logan Clendening, Actor Robert Montgomery, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (honorary...
Marking the one hundredth birthday of the world-famous jurist, the book will include a biography and criticism by Owen Roberts, Associate Justice of the Court; an article entitled "A Secretary Looks at Holmes" by W. Barton Leach '21, professor of Law; and a critical essay "The Student Views Holmes" by Robert F. Magill 3L. The dedication itself was written by present Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes...