Background
Beck, James Montgomery was born on July 9, 1861 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of James Nathan and Margaretta C. (Darling) Beck.
(A popular classic work of James Beck. The Evidence in the...)
A popular classic work of James Beck. The Evidence in the Case - A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia. This book offers an interesting perspective on the moral ramifications of World War 1 from a purely European point of view. Excerpt from The Evidence in the Case. Casuists of the Bernhardi school of moral philosophy will further suggest that to discuss the ethical merits of the war is to start with a false premise that such a thing as international morality exists, and that when once the conventionalities of civilization are laid aside the leading nations commence and make war in a manner that differs only in degree and not in kind from the methods of Frederick the Great and Napoleon, and that these in turn only differed in degree from those of Alaric and Attila. According to this theory, the only law of nations is that ascribed by the poet to Rob Roy: “The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.”
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Beck, James Montgomery was born on July 9, 1861 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of James Nathan and Margaretta C. (Darling) Beck.
Graduate Moravian College, Pennsylvania, 1880. Doctor of Laws, Mühlenberg College and Moravian College, 1902, University of Pennsylvania, 1910, McGill University and Lafayette College, 1917. Doctor of Literature, Franklin and Marshall College, 1918.
Doctor of Laws, Loyola University, 1931, University of Vermont, 1935.
James Mitchell of Philadelphia, 1890. Admitted to bar of Philadelphia, 1884, New York, 1903, to bar of England, 1922. United State Attorneys Eastern District Pennsylvania, 1896-1900.
Assistant attorney general United States, 1900-1903. Member Shearman & Sterling, New York, 1903-1917, Beck, Crawford & Harris, 1917-1927. Solicitor general of the United States, 1921-1925 (resigned).
Resumed practice of law in Washington and New York. Member 70th Congress (1927-1929), 1st Pennsylvania District, to fill unexpired term of James M. Hazlett, and reëlected to 71st and 72d Congresses (1929-1933), same district, and to 73d Congress (1933-1935), 2d Pennsylvania District. Resigned from Congress, October 1, 1934.
Officer Legion of Honor (French). Commander Order of the Crown (Belgian). Commander Order of Polonia Restituta (Polish).
(A popular classic work of James Beck. The Evidence in the...)
(Originally published in 1920. This volume from the Cornel...)
Member of Legion of Honor, France (officer). Order of Crown, Belgium (commander). Orde'r Polonia Restituta, Poland (commander).
Gray’s Inn. London (Honorary Bencher). Royal History Society. London (Fellow); Societe de Gens de Lettres of France (corresponding member).
American Philosophical Society. Pennsylvania Society of New York. (past pres, and gold medalist).
Archaeological Society Wash, (president). Sons of Revolution, District of Columbia (past president). Society Colonial Wars.
Shakespere Society, Philadelphia Clubs: Union League of New York. Metropolitan. Chevy Chase, Washington, District of Columbia.
Spouse Lilia Mitchell, 1890.