Word: juristic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...include the final line of the invocation with which his court crier opens every session: "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez. . . . God save the United States and this Honorable Court." There is doubtless a twinkle in his eye as he says it nowadays, for he is a statesman as well as a jurist and there is ample evidence that his mood today is not one of impotent bitterness. To the American Law Institute last May he said: "I am happy to report that the Supreme Court is still functioning...
Crusty but popular President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, 76, described himself as "a worn out old cart" when his followers recently insisted that he stand for reelection. Last week the Electoral Assembly of 300 passed over the "Old Cart" and by just one vote failed to elect Jurist Kaarlo Stahlberg who was the Finnish Republic's first elected President in 1919-25 and today is supposed to stand for drawing Finland into closer relations with the Soviet Union. On the second ballot, Agrarian Party Leader Kyosti Kallio, the only man who has been uninterruptedly elected a Finnish Legislator since...