Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phillips Brooks House Law School Committee for greater athletic facilities and an organization of intramural sports, another Easter egg has rolled into the lap of the H. A. A., which the Committee for the Regulation of Sports can open up after vacation. Because of the rigors of legal education, the law students, even more than the undergraduates, suffer when their facilities for exercise are inadequate or maladministered. Dr. Bock's observation that many young barristers ailing at Stillman are victims of poor physical training should clarify the need for dealing out a new pack of cards in this regard...
...five conservative Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court had deliberately set out to ''humanize" themselves as a means of frustrating President Roosevelt's plans to reform the Court, they could not have achieved a livelier photographic record of their extra-legal activities last week. There was the morning when photographers waited in the lobby of the apartment house where Justice Van Devanter lives. When Mr. Van Devanter came down accompanied by his two elderly sisters, the photographers cut loose. Incensed because they had not asked his permission (which on other occasions he has frequently given...
Witnesses Pro, Meanwhile the supporters of the Court plan marshaled their witnesses before the Senate Judiciary Committee, succeeded in assembling a long list of legal educators like Justin Miller, onetime Dean of Duke University Law School and now member of the Board of Tax Appeals, Leon Green of Northwestern, Thomas Konop of Notre...
...there was anything fishy about the "residence" of Mrs. Simpson at Ipswich- which was of only a few days duration- that is, if she was really a resident of London and had just skipped out into the country in an effort to dodge reporters, then that tiny but grim legal point could make the whole divorce fishy and perhaps void...
...Sister Katharine Eckert, 74, of Fort Wayne, Ind., agreed. But Tulane refused the offer because fat cadavers are useless for the study of anatomy. Hinted, also, were Tulane's fears that Jack's sister might change her mind at the last moment or that there might be legal complications about getting a body across the Alabama-Louisiana State line for anatomical study...