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Missouri's Circuit Judge Allen C. Southern is a downright jurist who once kept a delegation of striking building workers away from his home with a shotgun. Every two years comes his turn to preside over his court's criminal division, and Judge Southern has taught wrongdoers to watch the calendar carefully. Last time he sat he tried to probe Kansas City's notorious 1936 election frauds, but Federal authorities beat him to the draw in a prosecution of 200 election officials and workers that severely shook the Pendergast machine...
...National Assembly, now an impotent body in the control of the State Party for National Unity, which, in turn, is dominated by the Cabinet of Premier Jan Syrovy, the one-eyed general. Week ahead of time Czech newspapers announced that Dr. Emil Hacha, 66-year-old Czech jurist, would this week be unanimously elected by the Assembly...
...saying that when the reason for a law ceases to exist, the law itself dies with it. And to a distinguished professor up at the Law School, this little tag strikes at the very root of the legal system. In fact, it is reliably reported that this jurist injects the quotation at least four times into each of the profound and erudite dissertations he hurls at his disciples Mondays through Thursdays...
...applied for and received a formal searching permit from the U. S. Forest Service, so that even if the body were found by someone else it would still belong to the Smithsonian. Free-lance searchers disagreed with this view. The Portland Oregonian quoted one "eminent," unnamed Oregon jurist as follows: "Anyone finding a mineral deposit (and a meteorite is a mineral) may file a claim and get possession by going through certain legal procedure at the courthouse of the county wherein it is found...
This indifference may account, say they for the vaudeville entertainer who let spikes be driven through his hand, for the "eminent jurist" who bit off the tip of his crushed finger, for the woman who squeezed herself headfirst into a blazing furnace. What is the explanation for such indifference to pain, Drs. Ford & Wilkins could not say, decided that it may be akin to such mysteries as congenital color blindness, word deafness and word blindness...