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...dissolved to give the Spanish people a chance to elect new Deputies. For months Conservatives have been urging this course, predicting a Conservative landslide. To hold the election the President needed a "strong" Premier. He spent the week trying to find one, called in successively a wealthy young jurist, Felipe Sanchez Roman; crafty former Finance Minister Jose Manuel Pedregal; Dr. Gregorio Maranon, onetime physician to Alfonso XIII and a great advocate of birth control; Dean Posada of the Madrid Law School and finally-when all these had found the Premier's seat too hot- chose an old guard, conservative...
...against Judge Lowell. The Crawford decision was outstanding as an example of judicial realism of the most clear and intelligent kind, and is unconstitutional only in protest against an unconstitutionality stupendous in its arrogance and mad in its implications. But more interesting, perhaps, than the fate of any one jurist is the whole problem of the redefinition of constitutionality which will face the ten old men in October. Balancing the Crawford case and the judicial act will be a mere breather beside the dexterity needed to iron out the NRA and the decision in Hammer vs. Dagenhart, which forbids...
...Honi soit qui mal y pense," remarked the learned jurist...
Pleas she was the first woman jurist to sentence a man to death. As Supreme Court Judge she is rounding out her second six-year term. - Upon her the Federation of Business & Professional Women has conferred the title "preeminent professional woman of the nation." "The unmarried woman earning her living has stood out like a shining star," said Judge Allen to her sisters in Chicago. "I do not know what many a family would have done if it had not been for that refuge from their problems, the 'old maid' in the family. When married women were being...
Someone struck him in the mouth, jeered: "Will you swear now?" The jurist toppled to his knees. His teeth felt loose but he managed to reply: "No, I won't swear...