Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conversation (adultery). The case (Hanfgarn v. Mark) had been appealed to test two phases of New York's 1935 anti-heart balm act. For the plaintiff, counsel claimed that the rights which a husband has in the affection and society of his wife are property rights. After citing legal precedents, counsel turned to Petruchio's lines about his wife Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew (Act III, Scene...
Professor Wild, speaking over the Colonial network, criticized sharply the new legislation as a peace-maintaining factor. Weighing the efforts of Congress to keep this country out of war, he said: "A simple reiteration of the legal fact that Americans travel and trade in wartime at their own risk that the government will not give them blanket protection in whatever they undertake, and the direction of energy into prevention of war now instead of this naive effort to keep us unentangled by a hodge-podge of embargoes and prohibitions these steps would be far more effective...
Newcomers to legal halls this fall will be promptly photographed after their arrival in order to assure early completion of the enterprise. Organizations such as the boards of the Law Review and student advisers are expected to occupy space in the new annual...
...glorification of the American Girl, and incidentally to the jobs of about six hundred more or less honest hangers-on in the profession. The death sentence which Mr. Moss meted out to the burlesque parlors was undoubtedly long overdue as a social measure, but the arbitrary--almost extra-legal--infliction of punishment by the official censor reminds one more of Berlin, or even Boston, and is hardly a happy precedent for the reformers to set in our changing society...
...Near and Far East but at home is many an enemy. One of the oldest enemies is U. S. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings. Mr. Cummings' enmity dates to the early 19203 when he was practicing law in Stamford. Conn. At that time he took a legal trouncing in a suit against Alcoa. Later his law firm represented Baush Machine Too! Co. in its prolonged efforts to recover from Alcoa $9,000,000 in triple damages for as an impressive a list of unfair trade practices as ever brightened a docket. In the end the famed Baush case...