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Albert F. Barker of Brockton, Mass., formerly representative and state senator in Massachusetts,
has
succeeded
Thomas
E.
Grover as District Attorney for the south eastern district of Massachusetts.
The Kansas Bar Association will hold its annual meetin Jan. 27-28 in Topeka. Pro fessor Roscoe ound will deliver an address on "Puritanism and the Common Law," and other speakers will be W. S. Fitzpatrick of Independence, Paul Brown of Wichita, R. M.
George W. Woodrufi, who was appointed United States District rjudge for the territory of Hawaii by the President, cabled his resig ' nation Dec. 8, stating that he had acce ted a
Anderson of Beloit, M. Alden of Kansas City and President Green of Lawrence.
James M. Beck of New York has been ap ointed eneral counsel for the American ugar Re ning Com any, succeeding Director John E. Parsons. 1'. Beck is an attorney of the highest reputation and skill, and by common consent is rated as one of the ablest lawyers in the country.
The American Bar Association Code of Ethics was ado ted, with two changes, by the Nebraska tate Bar Association at its annual meeting at Omaha late in December. The Association rejected the recommendations of the national organization providing against reversals on technical appeals where sub stantial justice had been one, and did not approve of the su gestions aimed at prevent ing the abuses o the right of appeal, with its consequent delays.
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. The Pennsylvania Bar Association will hold 12ts next annual meeting at Cape May on June
8-30. A portrait of the late Chief Justice James McShen? was formally resented to the Court 0 Ap eals, by the tate Bar Associa tion of Mary and Dec. 9. _ The Louisville (Ky.) Bar Association put itself on record at its annual meetin on Dec. 28 as favoring an increase in the aries of Kentuck circuit judges and judges of the Kentucky ourt of A peals and the federal Judges of the United States. Speakers at the meetin of the Kansas City Bar Association held cc. 4 were Perry Porter, on “Motor Car Decisions"; Fred Wood, on llAmendments to the Interstate Commerce Law," and Prof. Thomas A. Street of the University of Missouri, on "American Case Law."
and,flmerican Economic,flssociafions To celebrate the quarter-centennial of the American Historical Association and of the American Economic Association, the two bodies held a joint convention in New York Dec. 28-9. Opening the meeting, Professor Davis R. Dewey of the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology, president of the American Economic Association, emphasized the im portance of accurate observation. "Records are conflicting at to what really happened in the panic of 1907," he said. “It is futile to attempt reform in the currency until there is greater agreement as to what are the actual conditions the repetition of which we seek to avoid." President Albert Bushnell Hart of the American Historical Association treated a similar subject in his paper on "Imagination in History," declaring that “the pressing dan er of the re ublic is inaccurac . ' on. Joseph . Choate defended ew York City from the charge of being mercenary, _ enumerating Columbia, City College, the Nor mal College for Women, the public schools
The Des Moines Bar Association and similar associations throughout the state of Iowa passed resolutions Dec. 4 recommending the appointment of Horace Emerson Deemer, of the Supreme Court of Iowa, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Peckham in the Supreme Court. George D. Van Dyke, former vice-president, was elected president of the Milwaukee County Bar Association in its annual meeting Dec. ll, succeeding Joseph G. Donnell . Other officers electedwere: vice- resident, hristian Doerfler; secretary, Carl F.
eilfuss; treasurer, Assistant
City Attorney Clinton G. Price. C. H. Van Alstine, W. H. Bender and Edgar L. Wood were elected to the executive committee. In mak ing his annual address, Mr. Donnelly made a strong plea for non-partisan election of judges.
and the museums as instances of the advance of the city. He pointed out also that New York had given freely to the outside univer sities, such as Harvard, Princeton and Chicago.
"The whole thing is reciprocal," he said. "New York is the heart of the nation, and it sends it
life blood through all the arteries of the land." Ex-Mayor McClellan entered on a defense of such writers as Prescott, Dumas and Ferrero as being able to make his story live again till even the perusal of Hallam’s “Middle Ages" maiy become a joy. resident Nicholas Murray Butler of Colum bia said that he regretted the absence of the psychologists, who were holding their annual meeting in Boston with the American Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science, as they could throw great light on the questions of litical science and public law. overnor Hughes declared that the Ameri
