Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your report of the proceedings had before the U. S. Supreme Court, in the Associated Press case (TIME, April 19), you refer to the "brilliant legal argument" made by John W. Davis, attorney for the AP; no reference whatsoever was made as to counsel for the respondent. I was present in the bar section of the Court room during the submission of the case and heard the carefully prepared, and if I may borrow the expression, "brilliant legal argument" of one Charles E. Wyzanski, counsel for the Guild; I also listened to the loosely-worded "oration" delivered by John...
...must be concerned with liberty abroad, but liberty begins at home. "We must hold tight to legal prescriptions and procedures, trust only to leaders committed by instinct and belief to the defense of civil liberties, and deal summarily with those who band together to destroy them. We must guard zealously the rights of our scholars and teachers to carry forward the stream of civilized thought . . . and protect the rights of assembly and speech and the freedom of the press...
...Last week at an auction postponed 56 consecutive times because of legal entanglements, Manhattan's Commercial National Bank & Trust Co. finally bought in securities pledged under old defaulted Insull loans...
Conceding the brilliance of Mr. Landis, Mr. Zabriskie puts the question which others have asked. Has the new dean the "legal temperament" which a dean should have? In other words, did the corporation choose wisely? The Bulletin editorial asserts that Mr. Zabriskie's "explosion" has rendered audible or visible the ardent and angry spoken condemnation of other graduates...
Barnes, whose home is in New York, was Yale 1933 and is also an editor of the legal monthly...