Word: juristic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black-haired, 21-year-old schoolmarm named Edith Maxwell testified last week in the courthouse at Wise, Va. that such was the innocent beginning of the fatal night of July 20, 1935. The trial judge, a jurist of 76 with stand-up collar around his wrinkled neck and a toothpick poised thoughtfully in the right-hand corner of his mouth, nodded encouragingly. The crowd, native to that end of Virginia which is just across the Cumberland Mountains from Kentucky, solemnly waited to see what the "Gov'ment" would do to a gal who stayed out late and killed...
Last month, without incident, Kentucky Republicans nominated King Swope, 40-year-old Lexington jurist, to be their candidate for Governor. Simultaneously the State's Democrats saw to it that the Dark & Bloody Ground's tradition for riotous elections did not fade. In the course of their primary balloting one was killed, several injured and the Adjutant General of the State was indicted for marching his militia into Harlan County in violation of a court injunction...
...housing project in Louisville last January, the Court thereby sanctioned the right of any cantankerous or greedy landowner to block a housing project. Owners of 85% of the land desired in Louisville have agreed to sell to the Government. Judge Florence Ellinwood Allen, No. 1 U. S. woman jurist, dissented vigorously from the opinion of her male colleagues, argued the Government's right to use its power of eminent domain for any "projects which benefit the health, the morals, and the general welfare of the people." In Washington, PWAdministrator Ickes was undecided about taking the case to the Supreme...
...Felix Frankfurter of Harvard emerged to report: "Mr. Holmes is in good spirits. He's kidding his nurses." Chairman Francis Biddle of the National Labor Relations Board, one of that long series of fledgling Harvard Law graduates who have been honored by one-year appointments as the great jurist's secretary, reported that, catching Professor Frankfurter tiptoeing by his bed, Mr. Justice Holmes had merrily thumbed his nose...
...essayist. But the fame of his pioneer work in conquering the scourge of puerperal (childbed) fever will be fresh when The Chambered Nautilus and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table are moldering on scholars' shelves. So, too, his own world has saluted Mr. Justice Holmes as the first jurist and first gentleman of his time. But the world a century hence may well honor him best as a great philosopher, whose creative thought chanced to be channelled into the law. At once creed, autobiography and epitaph is a passage from a speech he made to Harvard students years...