Word: suffolk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bitter Feeling. But elimination of the liquor question did not entirely preclude bad feeling. Educational requirements for admission to the Bar received major consideration and brought in conflict two belligerent factions, one headed by Dean Lewis of Pennsylvania, the other by Dean Gleason Leonard Archer of the Suffolk Law School (Boston night school). Dean Lewis advocated reaffirming the Association's previous recommendation of a two-year college education prior to law study. Dean Archer charged a "clique" within the Association was attempting to foster a "college monopoly on legal education by outlawing evening law schools." Dean Lewis retorted that...
...Collided with the race issue as the result of specific demands for a denunciation of Mrs. Hoover's White House reception of Mrs. Oscar De Priest, wife of Illinois' Negro Congressman. I. C. Trotman of Suffolk, who had telegraphed Mrs. Hoover that her act had cost the Hoovercrats 25,000 votes in Virginia, resigned in protest from the executive committee when the convention only declared: "We stand for racial integrity and while official relations must be maintained, we deplore any social relationship between whites and blacks." Later, as the convention was going home, it was disturbed to hear that President...
President Hoover is understood to have been eager for some time to obtain the services of the dean. He is an outstanding legal expert, is not identified with either side of the prohibition controversy, and is prominent in the direction of the Harvard Crime Survey in Suffolk Country...
...images and ritual are the Easters of today−in Rome, where the Pope washes the feet of twelve bishops; in Russia, where Christ is supposed to walk through the land disguised as a beggar; in the Philippines, where there are gorgeous parades and cockfights; in Chester and Suffolk (England), where they play ball and dance to music; on Fifth Avenue, Main Street and in Stubbs Corners, where new clothes, pleased smiles and excited conversation are the Easter ritual of people who do not go to church...
Inarticulate devotion to the Suffolk fields, Author Freeman records with insight and fidelity...