Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other outsider present, a New York Jour nal reporter named Joseph Denove. After the garrulous black "God" had been at it for two hours, and showed no sign of concluding although it was 3 a. m., even Harry Greene grew bored watching. They approached the platform, where Comora in legal fashion smartly tapped Father Divine on the chest with the summons. According to the process server, Father Divine shouted "Ugh!" or "a sort of a yell," and the assembly room became uproar...
...living last week-the Peace Hotel at High Falls, N. Y., one of 22 properties in the Hudson River Valley acquired by Father Divine as a "Promised Land" for his people. Said Faithful Mary: "Peace, I don't want to do it." Since "God" Divine avoids many legal troubles and income taxes by registering property in the names of his followers, there was nothing he could do to retrieve Peace Hotel or any of the local businesses owned by Faithful Mary...
Resignations of Wilbur Cortez Abbott, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, and Dr. George Burgess Magrath '94, professor of legal medicine at the Medical School, effective next September 1, were announced yesterday. Goth will become professor emeritus...
...Magrath, who has taught legal medicine at Harvard since 1907, was Medical Examiner of Suffolk Country, Mass., 1907-35. A graduate of Harvard College in 1894, he received...
Crossing between races that are physical far apart involves serious social results. Since one race is dominant, society forbids legal unions. Thus, the offspring, besides being unique in look, are socially stigmatized; at best they must live with the inferior group. In America mulattoes have increased rapidly, so that now only one-fourth of the Negro population is full-blooded. To discourage marriages between Negroes and Whites a pseudo-scientific propaganda has appeared which underlines the supposed bad effects of crossing. But scientists doubt if mulattoes are inferior; among Indians they have found that mixed bloods show less sterility...