Word: juristic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Honi soit qui mal y pense," remarked the learned jurist...
Pleas she was the first woman jurist to sentence a man to death. As Supreme Court Judge she is rounding out her second six-year term. - Upon her the Federation of Business & Professional Women has conferred the title "preeminent professional woman of the nation." "The unmarried woman earning her living has stood out like a shining star," said Judge Allen to her sisters in Chicago. "I do not know what many a family would have done if it had not been for that refuge from their problems, the 'old maid' in the family. When married women were being...
...Lowell had intensified the racial issue by raising it before trial. Southern resentment against Judge Lowell quickly boiled to a climax in the House of Representatives. Two days after the Boston ruling Virginia's Representative Howard Smith, whose district includes Loudoun County, arose and solemnly impeached the Massachusetts jurist for high crimes and misdemeanors. The gist of seven counts against him was that Judge Lowell...
Bostonians know Judge Lowell, whose mother was an Emerson, as the jurist who wears flashy cravats and lurid waistcoats, waves to friends from the bench, potters about with flowers. They like to bracket him as a legal libertarian with those other two Massachusetts justices, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Dembitz Brandeis. In 1930 Judge Lowell suffered a paralytic stroke that affected his walk. Last year when a Prohibition case based on wiretapping was before him, he effected an acquittal by addressing the jury thus: "We love to think of Uncle Sam as a thoroughly upright man. . . . Let us look...
Someone struck him in the mouth, jeered: "Will you swear now?" The jurist toppled to his knees. His teeth felt loose but he managed to reply: "No, I won't swear...