Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admission to the bar is tantamount to election to State bar associations and even in such legal citadels as Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago, city bar groups accept women members. But at the florid marble building of the Bar Association of the City of New York at No. 42 West 44th Street, women lawyers have never been welcome. At one Bar Association reception for newly admitted lawyers, women were turned away. Although Manhattan women lawyers had met informally for nearly 15 years prior, it was this incident which served to solidify their organization into the New York Women...
...vice is that the bar has been charging all that the traffic will bear. It has forsaken the tradition that its members are officers of the court. .. . Organization for the practice of law on the large scale of mass production has contributed to the alleged necessity of computing legal fees on an overhead rather than on a service basis. . . . Modest professional standards have been discarded...
Chicago Lawyer Newman A. Du Mont died last September, leaving an estate in excess of $100,000 to his mother, Mrs. Loretta Du Mont. His pretty widow, Jane Wilson Du Mont, 29, went into Probate Court and was declared a legal widow, entitled to one-third of the real and personal property in the estate under Illinois law. Mother Du Mont appealed, denying the validity of her son's 1932 hasty marriage in Crown Point, Ind., part of the record of which had been lost...
...problems of law presented. ... I could find no exact precedent . . . but I did find an Indiana statute which reads: 'No marriage shall be void for the lack of a license or other formality required by the law, if either of the parties thereto believed it to be a legal marriage at the time.' My construction of that would be that if all they did was to sign an application for a license, as they both did, and one believed it a legal marriage...
...scheduled heavyweight prize fight between Champion James Braddock and Challenger Joe Louis in Chicago on June 22. The court ruled that the Garden's contract with Braddock "places an unreasonable restraint upon his liberty." For the benefit of fight fans who want to keep up with the heavyweight legal tangle, the New York Times's versatile Sportswriter John Kieran submitted this brief at week...