Word: juristic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprised [the Assembly was] to hear that there are a large number of people living ... on our [northwestern] borders, who claim descent from Israel . . . something like, I should think, between 20 to 30 million people." Said tired Assembly President Dr. Oswaldo Aranha at last: "I am sure the eminent jurist who is the Indian representative knows what I mean when I refer to flatus vocis, which scholars use when they want to refer to people who are talking too much about nothing...
Died. Helen Gregory MacGill, 76, Canada's first woman jurist (the Vancouver, B.C. juvenile court for 22 years); Cosmopolitan magazine-sponsored globetrotter of half a century ago, who lost out to a typhoon when she tried to beat Nellie Ely's 72-day around-the-world record; in Chicago...
Into Fairyland. For two harried days Judge Picard, an able, conscientious jurist, tried to get somebody to help him define a trifle. Nobody would. Judge Picard recalled that, before the Supreme Court decision, the company had claimed that it took 14 minutes to walk from the time clock to a workbench. The union had said it was only a minute and a half. Now the company claimed that walking time was only two minutes; now the union said...
...unsuccessful 1938 "purge" of Maryland Senator Millard Tydings. Judge Goldsborough is tall, kindly, vigorous, the father of four. As a politician, he is a New Deal follower who represented Maryland's Eastern Shore in Congress for 18 years (1921-39), specializing in fiscal problems. As a jurist, Judge Goldsborough is impatient of red tape and somewhat hasty. Once he called a defendant a son-of-a-bitch in court-an outburst that caused the U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse the case on the grounds of intemperate language...
...climbing, poetry-loving Welshman and Foreign Office career man; Administrative & Financial Services-Kentucky's thin-shelled John B. Hutson, former director of the tobacco, sugar, rice & peanuts division of AAA; Social Affairs-sharp-eyed Henri Laugier, former professor of physiology at the Sorbonne; Legal Affairs -Ivan Kerno, Czech jurist, veteran of the League and the French underground; and Trusteeships-Dr. Victor Hoo, witty Washington-born Chinese diplomat, who makes a sweeping claim to be a citizen of the world: "It's merely accidental that I'm not an Occidental...