Word: interprets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commissions made plenty of jobs for this new kind of graduate. Pound hoped they would help write good laws; he was not a man who wanted courts to invade the functions of legislation. Only last week he cracked out publicly against "judges today [who] attempt to be statesmen and interpret laws without guidance by the intent of those who enacted them." His dictum: "Law must be stable, and yet it cannot stand still...
...Moscow three-power declaration of November 1943) that Austria had merely been forced into Hitler's war, 2) Because Potsdam granted Russia German holdings in eastern Austria as reparations, Russia now claims all property seized by the Nazis during the occupation; the U.S. and Britain interpret the Potsdam clause to mean property owned by Germany before the Anschluss. 3) Russia wants to seize as war criminals most anti-Communist refugees from Soviet satellites who are now among the 400,000 D.P.s in Austrian camps; the U.S. and Britain insist that the Russians produce specific evidence before they make arrests...
WASHINGTON, January 14--A tart suggestion from Justice Jackson that the Supreme Court is trying to psychoanalyze Congress rather than interpret the law climaxed the historic John L. Lewis contempt case as the court took it under advisement late today...
...afternoon papers to whom this charge is most applicable. The morning dallies need only recapitulate the games and events that have taken place the evening before, but the evening editions are called upon to interpret, angle and dress up the same information that has already appeared. The result is such incidents as the recent two items about Harvard, which caused bitterness and embarrassment, not to mention the fact that they were also unture or warped...
...pattern. Aged statesman Yukio Ozaki warned that the Japanese moral code-"based on murder and falsehood"-must be radically altered, predicted that three generations would be needed to educate Japanese to the meaning of the new constitution. Said Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun, as it prepared to publicize and interpret the constitution's text and meaning: "Only when we have created a state or society in which we can get along perfectly well without knowing a single article of the constitution can the new constitution really be said to have been completed...