Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such hope died when Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo began to read. As he is an outstanding liberal, his reading meant that the liberals of the Court were in the majority...
Thomas L. Talbot '39 was elected president of the victorious Kirkland House Boat Club to succeed David A. Tufts '37 at a recent dinner. Benjamin B. Buck '39 is the Club's next treasurer...
...Chicago. Mrs. Marion Felix Jones brought a rare equity action known as quia timet (because he fears) against her wealthy rubber-making father, Benjamin Bates Felix. At the start of hearings before a Master in Chancery which may drag on two years, Mrs. Jones testified that she is afraid she will not receive property valued at $500,000 orally promised by her grandfather because her father is under the domination of his second wife. Mrs. Jones is suing now to establish the oral promise as a constructive trust, before her father's death...
With all the vigor of a Roy Howard or Robert McCormick, Associate Editor Benjamin ("The Coast Kid") Benson of the Hobo News indignantly declared that things had come to a pretty pass when a journalist could not sell his own paper on the sidewalks of New York. Ready to back his editor to the limit of his resources, the News's Publisher Patrick Bernard ("The Roaming Dreamer") Mulkern and his associates furnished $10 bail when the judge refused to see the case in its broader aspects, issued a ringing statement...
...charged with the monumental task of restating the principles of law. By February 1923 wise old Mr. Root had vitalized the idea, secured from the Carnegie Corp. an initial $1,000,000 appropriation to organize the American Law Institute. He became its first president. Professor Lewis its director. To Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, then an associate judge of New York's Court of Appeals, creation of the A. L. I. signalized "to the world that laissez faire in law is going or has gone the way of laissez faire in economics...