Word: jurists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Alfaro was president of Panama 1931-32, and minister to the United States 1922-30, and 1932-37. A distinguished jurist, he served on the commission on the codification of law, Panama, 1913; as Panamanian judge in the Mixed Claims Commission dealing with expropriations for the Panama Canal, 1915; as Secretary of Government and Justice, Panama, 1918-22; and as a member of the Hague Court...
...influence of the churches. Usually the results are not spectacular. Last week, however, in St. Petersburg, Fla., Magistrate John T. Fisher had cause to ponder the value of religion as a deterrent to misbehavior. Last August when A. K. Patterson, 20, was haled before Magistrate Fisher for speeding, the jurist sentenced the youth to attend Sunday School for 13 weeks. On 13 Mondays, Speeder Patterson repeated the text of the Sunday School lesson in Magistrate Fisher's chambers. Five days after he had delivered his 13th report to the gratified magistrate, who by that time had received many...