Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dedicated to Senior Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, "greatest American jurist," at the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, the March number of the Harvard Law Review will appear today. The issue includes tributes and essays about Justice Holmes by leading judges of England and the United States, as well as the usual sections devoted to comments on recent decisions and specialized branches...
Actually this title needed qualification. A magistrate is as different from a Supreme Court judge as an ordinary bank officer from a financier. And in Ohio that learned, grey-haired jurist. Florence Allen, had be come a justice of the Supreme Court. But what matter? Jean Norris had no grey hairs and was certainly somebody. She loved her work-being called "Your Honor," and tartly telling this male he was overruled, or wisely bidding that bad girl to be good...
When the committee, headed by Chair-man Borah, finally strolled in and sat about the table, Jurist Root began a three-hour exposition of his handiwork. Reviewing the World Court's history and its relation to the council of the League of Nations, he detailed his objections to the Senate's rigid reservation against the Court's rendering an advisory opinion on any question in which the U. S. has or claims to have an interest. Under the Root formula, views are to be exchanged first between the U. S. and the Court on the question...
Clarence Darrow, militant agnostic and Chicago criminal lawyer will meet the Reverend Dr. Herbert S. Johnson on the platform of Symphony Hall at 8 o'clock tomorrow night on the question. "Is Religion Necessary." The debate which will present the famous jurist before a Boston audience for the first time as an agnostic is to be held under the auspices of the Discussion Guild...
These two were inextricably confused by TIME when reporting Law Enforcement Commissioner Mackintosh's plea that the Commission "go to the guts of this whole Prohibition Question." TIME, having reprimanded its National Affairs Editor, gladly returns each Jurist to his own foundation, with apologies...