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...Washington, Franklin Roosevelt sat at his desk while the earth moved. But the U.S. was not so weak that it could not act. Franklin Roosevelt exercised his will against the fulcrum of a nation which, although still only half armed, had immense latent power. Although...
Strategy. The headlines pounded with the rich, twisty Balkan names: Zagreb, Cattaro, Salonika, Ljubljana. But the President and his counselors had to watch the whole enormous scene in a world where the U.S. was a fulcrum, balancing Britain in the Western scale with Chungking in the East...
...evidence, the raw material of justice, English law by the end of the 19th Century had arrived at a stable system of rules. Not so, however, U. S. law, which has not one but 50 legal systems (48 State courts, Federal Courts, District of Columbia courts). Without some central fulcrum, the scales of U. S. justice would have varied more & more widely according to local precedent...
Since the beginning of the century that fulcrum has been supplied by the scholarship of John Henry Wigmore. First published in 1904, his Treatise on Evidence is recognized by lawyers as one of the most important legal works ever produced in the U. S. Cited by the courts as often as any text, it has provided a standard source from which judges and lawyers can ascertain the origin, reason and status of the rules of evidence. Useless rules, ill-trained judges, an unskilled bar are the targets of its clarity. The third and final revised edition of the Treatise...
Interest on policy loans has long been a fulcrum for attacks on the investment feature of life insurance. Why, asked critics, should life insurance companies be allowed to charge 6% for lending customers' own funds back to them when open market and commercial-bank money rates range from...