Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from heart disease came suddenly last week to Herman Oliphant, 54, grey-locked, hollow-eyed general counsel of the Treasury Department. It left the Treasury bereft of the most earnest economic experimenter remaining there since the withdrawal of the late Professor George F. ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Herman Oliphant, a law scholar before he was a financier and a liberal before he was a lawyer, was the prime advocate of the Undistributed Profits Tax, written into the tax law of 1936. All but the bare principle of that tax, which Franklin Roosevelt loved for its neat theory,* was killed...
...When there is widespread disobedience to law, it is not enough to enforce the law; it is also necessary to discover and eliminate the causes of that widespread disobedience. ... I do feel sure that the sit-down strike has now been thoroughly discredited and I believe we have seen...
...argument will involve legal problems raised by the new federal Wages and Hours law, and the judges' decision will be made entirely on the merit and ability of the student lawyers' and not on presentation of the case...
...decision on Thursday will single out the ablest senior law "team...
...Many a Harvard student has drunk away his father's fortune; Leverett Saltonstall, who made no money as a politician, altered the pattern by selling his famous wine cellar to put Richard Middlecott through college with the Class of 1880." Richard V went into the law. His son, Leverett III, graduated in 1914, went into the law, and is now Governor of the Commonwealth...