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...predict that at the Democratic National Convention labor-liberal forces will find it politically impossible to back President Truman regardless of the availability of General Ike. In this connection the Yulce Lecture Justice William Orville Douglas delivered March 22 at the University of Florida assumes extreme significance. Here a jurist brilliantly analyzed the world crisis and made quite clear how he would tackle this nation's dilemmas. His address was "political" in timing and content. Douglas himself has high political sex-appeal stemming from the frank informality of his appearance and the lusty variety of his background...
...Roscoe Pound? He is the greatest jurist in your country. It takes many centuries to produce a man like that," Chao Lung Yang, director of the department of criminal affairs of the Chinese National Government declared last night. Chao is now in Cambridge after two months of European travel and three international legal conferences...
During the fall, the portly, Keen-eyed jurist carried a heavy law schedule, beside one course in he College. He grades all examinations and term papers himself. "I do not think it is fair to my students to have assistants do the work," he said. He found his first postwar class swollen, as is the rule these days, with serious-minded veterans "much better" than those before...
...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...