Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in Illinois in 1905 and in the past few years he has served on the editorial staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has devoted himself mainly to the study and analysis of problems dealing with Supreme Court decisions and controversies. He has also written about administrative law and labor law...
Large, baldish and worldly, he was no ivory tower judge. He believed that social and economic phenomena "give life and substance to the law." Lawyers disliked his air of domineering omniscience, which seemed seldom justified by his understanding of their cases. And some lawyers worried about his off-bench business affairs which were known to be extensive and intricate...
...August morning in 1937, Inspector Norman R. Arthur was patrolling the harbor of Honolulu looking for violators of the Federal law against dumping garbage into U. S. waters. Around 10 o'clock, as he eased his motor sampan under the overhanging stern of the Dollar Steamship Lines steamer, President Coolidge, he obtained first-hand evidence. A Chinese mess boy leaned over the rail and dumped a pail of swill, "cabbage, orange peel, celery, tea leaves and water," squarely on Inspector Arthur's head...
Zechariah Chafee, Jr., professor at the Law School, will lead the list of speakers at a Lincoln Day program planned by New England scientists and educators next Sunday in Sanders Theatre. The program is one of a number of mass meetings to be held throughout the country on Lincoln's birthday to emphasize the American legacy of intellectual freedom and democracy and the need for preserving them...
Contrary to the popular impression which arose when the money was first given in 1935, the Littauer Center will not be a separate graduate school in the sense that the Law, Business and Medical Schools are. Most of the faculty will be present members of the University faculty, and there will be no separate degree given for work at the Center...