Word: jurists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover nominee. And it seems that what started as a quasi-political attack on a presidential appointment is turning into a battle over the fundamental principles of government. Backed by evidence of Judge Parker's hostile attitude towards trade unions and negro voting, the opponents of the North Carolina jurist claim that he will augment that element of the Court which interprets the law literally, rather than siding with that trio of dissenters, Holmes and Stone and Brandeis, who make law a means...
...stockholders, into the comparative quiet of the courts. Neither Cyrus Eaton nor Jim Campbell, nor Grace and Schwab of Bethlehem, nor the Mather brothers of Cleveland, held the key to Youngstown's riddle. For four days, this object was in the hands of a hitherto obscure but extremely genial jurist by the name of C. S. Turnbaugh...
...King" Benjamin died in December 1927. Soon the House of David became a house divided. "Queen" Mary vied for control with H. T. Dewhirst, onetime California jurist. For 28 years she had inhabited Shiloh, as the cult's property is called. There stands the austere mansion in which secret chambers reputedly conceal a fortune of $1,000,000 in cash and jewels left by "King" Benjamin. There is nothing secret about his mummified body, which is there on display. "Queen" Mary had hoped to cherish these properties, sacred and personal, to preach immortality there in the footsteps...
Introduced gravely, in scholarly guise, with all the panoply of footnotes, references to authorities, bibliography, this light-hearted joke in print conceals much satirical common sense, is indicative of modern styles in disillusioned venery. Says the author: "[A] Missouri jurist . . . after a long and tiresome case of seduction, in which he found for the defendant, made a pronouncement from the bench to the effect that 'There is no such thing as seduction.' Although in my opinion this statement is somewhat extreme for our purposes, it serves to demonstrate the modern trend of sentiment...
...Supreme Court left academic Boston, to be wounded three times in the Civil War. Closing his service on the staff of General Wright, he began a law practice through which he acquired a reputation that finally placed him on the highest judiciary body of the land. As a great jurist, his knowledge of the law never has subordinated the human equation, never has quenched the kindly gleam of tolerance in the profound seriousness of the sage...