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Alfaro was president of Panama 1931-32, and minister to the United States 1922-30, and 1932-37. A distinguished jurist, he served on the commission on the codification of law, Panama, 1913; as Panamanian judge in the Mixed Claims Commission dealing with expropriations for the Panama Canal, 1915; as Secretary of Government and Justice, Panama, 1918-22; and as a member of the Hague Court...
...influence of the churches. Usually the results are not spectacular. Last week, however, in St. Petersburg, Fla., Magistrate John T. Fisher had cause to ponder the value of religion as a deterrent to misbehavior. Last August when A. K. Patterson, 20, was haled before Magistrate Fisher for speeding, the jurist sentenced the youth to attend Sunday School for 13 weeks. On 13 Mondays, Speeder Patterson repeated the text of the Sunday School lesson in Magistrate Fisher's chambers. Five days after he had delivered his 13th report to the gratified magistrate, who by that time had received many...
...confiscated, Soviet law students and their professors were left stranded. Reason: Old Bolshevik Pashukanis had suddenly been attacked in the official newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") by Stalin's favorite prosecutor of Old Bolsheviks, tigerish Andrei I. Vishinsky. Without waiting to get the Soviet Union's No. 1 jurist so much as arrested, Stalin's Vishinsky raged in print that the Law's Pashukanis is "a double-crosser who has turned the Soviet Law Institute into a cattle-shed...
...camera was destroyed. This time it belonged to the Star, and the Journal's Editor Sevellon Brown was accused of breaking it. When a judge released Mr. Brown, the Star let loose a journalistic catcall at the decision, was promptly held in contempt of court by the incensed jurist...
...involves "morals,"* but has narrowly circumscribed Congress' power where business and industry were concerned. With many an obscure legal phrase and many a learned footnote, Lawyer Cowan pokes fun at legalists as only another legalist can. He sets forth how, in an "exhaustive and painstaking opinion," a learned jurist whom he calls Alyce has settled once & for all the subject matter of "interstate commerce...