Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Osages struck oil, royalties were not paid to individual Indian land owners, but were received communally and distributed, equally, to the "headrights." Some of the tribesmen took legal steps to be declared competent and proceeded to have a hilarious time with the new wealth. The incompetent Osages are now most competent, for they have cash reserves in Washington and their incomes are stable, amounting to $1,000 per quarter-year, with special cash dispensations for special needs. The competent Osages are now, with a few fine exceptions, busted, except for meagre funds that filter in from...
...good newspaperman would rather have his name above a story than in it. Last week Morris Watson, legal guinea-pig of the American Newspaper Guild's test case against the Associated Press (TIME, June 29 et seq.), not only had his name in a story but that story was before the Supreme Court of the United States and its climax became the law of the land...
...Attorney Davis was rebuffed on his freedom of the press argument he was overwhelmed on his claim, startling to lay minds, that the far-flung AP is not engaged in interstate commerce. His brilliant legal argument, his citation of prior cases in which the Supreme Court had ruled that such businesses as insurance, buying and selling bills of exchange and reporting credit standings, are not interstate commerce even though they operate interstate, were swept aside in a ruling that "interstate communication of a business nature, whatever the means of such communication, is interstate commerce regulatable by Congress under the Constitution...
Looking back over a half century of existence, the Review points out in an article that legal periodicals published by jurists were apparently too well established to be dislodged by the work of mere students. Thus it was with a note of apology that the first edition appeared in April, 1887. Since then its growth has been steady...
...function of the bureau has been to supply legal advice free of charge to the needy of Cambridge and vicinity. Due to changes in the Massachusetts Law affecting the legal activities of persons not members of the bar, the bureau was closed in 1935. It is now under the supervision of a practicing attorney...