Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Gary Cooper, 32, film actor, son of a Helena, Mont, jurist; and Veronica Balfe (Sandra Shaw), 20, film actress, of Manhattan; in Manhattan...
Donald Richberg, eaglophile counsel of the NRA, promptly pooh-poohed this blunt setback: "The judge's remarks on the alleged unconstitutionality of the Recovery Act itself obviously do not carry any legal weight, since they were expressive of the jurist's personal view and did not constitute a ruling on a point...
Died, James Arnold Lowell. 64, Federal district judge at Boston, cousin of Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell; of pneumonia following erysipelas; at his home in Newton, Mass. Bostonians knew him as the white-thatched, twinkly-eyed jurist who wore flashy ties and waistcoats, waved to his friends from the bench, admitted Russian refugees into the U. S. and conscientious objectors to citizenship, called Uncle Sam a "sneaking cur" for letting Prohibition agents tap wires. The entire nation heard of him when he temporarily halted the extradition of a Negro charged with murder in Virginia on the ground...
...dissolved to give the Spanish people a chance to elect new Deputies. For months Conservatives have been urging this course, predicting a Conservative landslide. To hold the election the President needed a "strong" Premier. He spent the week trying to find one, called in successively a wealthy young jurist, Felipe Sanchez Roman; crafty former Finance Minister Jose Manuel Pedregal; Dr. Gregorio Maranon, onetime physician to Alfonso XIII and a great advocate of birth control; Dean Posada of the Madrid Law School and finally-when all these had found the Premier's seat too hot- chose an old guard, conservative...
...against Judge Lowell. The Crawford decision was outstanding as an example of judicial realism of the most clear and intelligent kind, and is unconstitutional only in protest against an unconstitutionality stupendous in its arrogance and mad in its implications. But more interesting, perhaps, than the fate of any one jurist is the whole problem of the redefinition of constitutionality which will face the ten old men in October. Balancing the Crawford case and the judicial act will be a mere breather beside the dexterity needed to iron out the NRA and the decision in Hammer vs. Dagenhart, which forbids...