Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks ago the first crew of diggers appeared in a shrubby field near Pinopolis and began clearing land. But one impediment remained: South Carolina's condemnation law, behind which landowners in the to-be-flooded area took refuge, vowing to defend their holdings against the march of unnecessary Progress and political Pork. Last fortnight both houses of South Carolina's General Assembly put skids under this impediment by voting to the Public Service Authority a new right of eminent domain, subject to price verdicts by arbitrators. Last week Governor Maybank knocked out the last chock by signing this...
...Florida the law says that a political party must poll at least 15% of votes cast in general elections to keep its place on the ballot at the next election. Two years ago the required figure was 30%, but the Legislature lowered it for the benefit of the Republican Party. Last week Florida's Legislature acted again, cut the figure to 5% for the vestigial...
...former professor in the Law School left Cambridge last winter to take up his duties as a Supreme Court Justice in Washington, which he reports is not a harder job than teaching...
...Chairman of the Princetonian during his Senior year and he is now a member of the Law Review. He will be Mr. Frankfurter's secretary for one year. This custom of appointing a high ranking Law School graduate was began by the late Justice Holmes...
...noted contemporary poet as well as a journalist, MacLeish graduated from Yale in 1915, and from the Harvard Law School in 1919 after two years as an army captain during the World War. He came to Harvard last fall to coordinate the work of the Nieman Fellows in journalism...