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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leach's communication, printed in a recent issue of the CRIMSON, entirely misrepresents the decision of the Supreme Court in the Steel Corporation case, and cannot be allowed to go unanswered. "This court", says Mr. Leach, "has reasoned substantially as follows: the purpose of law is the furtherance of the public welfare; when, therefore, a statute which usually accomplishes this end fails to react to the benefit of the public in a particular case, the fundamental purpose of the law should be considered above its mere verbal provisions. In other words, the public weal supersedes all law." The Supreme Court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/15/1920 | See Source »

...they claim no such right. Their task is to apply legislation to the facts; and if in any case a statute appears capable of more than one interpretation, to construe it as they think the legislature meant it to be construed, subject to general principles of construction. Mr. Leach forgets that the public weal is a thing, concerning which there can be no knowledge, but only opinion; and that our government is based on the idea that we should rely on the opinion of our representative legislatures and not of the courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/15/1920 | See Source »

...Leach's conclusions from his own reasoning are enough to show his error. He admits that the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and of the press. But he says, in the case of Bolshevists "we (and I suppose that here he means to constitute himself the judge of what the public thinks) have been forced to realize that these principles (i.e., freedom of speech and the press) have reacted to the detriment of the public welfare which they were purposed to benefit." The obvious moral is that in the case of Bolshevists the public weal (or Mr. Leach's interpretation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/15/1920 | See Source »

...this special case these principles have reacted to the detriment of the public welfare which they were purposed to benefit. We were at a loss to reconcile our legal doctrines with our public interest. For the solution of this problem we have the Supreme Court to thank. W. B. LEACH...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/6/1920 | See Source »

...Efficiency" Jones, the leading part, will be played by W. B. Leach '22, while M. H. Dill '20 will fill the role of charming and romantic Ella...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE PI ETA SHOW SEVEN TIMES | 3/2/1920 | See Source »

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