Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Law School's Story Professor of Law, T. Reed Powell, doubtless feels honored by your attributing to Mr. Justice Holmes Mr. Powell's sly jest as to Mr. Justice Butler's feelings about the procreation of imbeciles in perpetuity [TIME, Nov. 27]. Romantic legends certainly have gathered round Holmes's name; but even a casual reading of his opinion in Buck v. Bell and of Mr. Powell's digest thereof in his Police Power essays, published-as I recall-in the Virginia Law Review, will uncover the source of this...
TIME'S law is accurate, but from TIME'S facts I dissent...
...give devilish-witted Prof. Thomas Reed Powell his just due, the crack originated thus: Justice Holmes (reading decision): "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Prof. Powell (adding thereto in the Virginia Law Review, June 1931): "Mr. Justice Butler dissents...
...State tried to show that Maverick and his co-defendants conspired to spend Maverick money in 50? pieces to pay the $1.50 poll tax for an I. L. G. W. U. member so he could help elect him. (By Texas law, no one can vote without paying a poll tax.) Defense maintained that the money was spent legally for campaign purposes...
...President's tribute to the former Law School professor and present Supreme Court Justice was one of the many features of the album. It declared, "Felix Frankfurter has for years devoted his wide sympathies, his great energies, and his deep learning to the development and training of an enlightened and public spirited...