Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in the history of the Ames Competition at the Law School, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court will be one of the judges when the Honorable Owen J. Roberts presides at be finals on January 18, John O. Rhome, faculty assistant in charge of the competition, revealed yesterday...
...Founder's Day of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, British Ambassador to the U. S. Lord Lothian-who so far has got neatly over every hurdle that might offend U. S. public opinion-proposed "unity of nations under law, with government possessed of police powers." Totalitarian imperialism must be ended, he said, and the weaknesses of democracy corrected. "Democracy was right in its insistence on liberty and personal responsibility, but in practice the free peoples have abused the freedom it has given them by turning it, as St. Paul says, to uses of the flesh. . . . The leaders of democracy...
Travels. Kaufman was born in Pittsburgh of a middle-class Jewish family who "managed to get in on every business as it was finishing, and made a total of $4 among them." After leaving high school, George started studying law because it seemed a good way to put off working for several years. But after three months he quit, because he couldn't make heads or tails...
...strong indication of the way out for railroads already bankrupt, hogtied in the Courts by common stockholders' claims, came last week from the Supreme Court. The Court was unanimous and its spokesman was Mr. Justice William Orville Douglas, who first made his jurisprudential name as a Yale Law School professor by analyzing bankruptcies for the SEC. Actually the case did not concern a railroad at all. It concerned obscure Los Angeles Lumber Products Company, Ltd. and was chosen as a kind of Schechter case for a New Deal test of Section 776 of the Federal Bankruptcy...
...images and distorted ideas which pass through the mind of an individual who is ill; Fear will be hovering above the person's head and the bed upon which he is resting might be transformed into the automobile he was driving when an accident occurred. All elements of natural law and human reason are distorted. In many respects, Futurism is quite similar to Sur-realism...