Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dependencies in his report to the New York Bar Association (TIME, Feb. 8). In his 1936 report issued last month Dean Young B. Smith of the Columbia School of Law said: "Practically every one at some time needs a doctor, but the proportion of the population who require legal services is necessarily limited." Says Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the A. M. A.'s Journal, about overcrowding in the medical profession: "The A. M. A.'s Commission on Medical Education found there are 25% too many doctors. However, everybody realizes the distribution of doctors is not what...
...that although the Federal Government had thus been rendered powerless to touch the problem of hours and wages, the States were equally helpless; and that it pleased the 'personal economic predilections' of a majority of the Court that we live in a nation where there is no legal power anywhere to deal with its most difficult practical problems-a no man's land of final futility...
Potency of the Lindbergh Law depends on Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce, interpretations of which have been so notoriously contradictory. Currently in the Illinois Law Review a smart young Louisiana State University law professor named Thomas A. Cowan licks his legal chops in a fancifully-written article which shows just how loose has been the courts' usage of this Constututional phrase, "commerce . . . among the several States." Crux of Lawyer Cowan's thesis is that the U. S. Supreme Court has been willing to expand the meaning of "interstate commerce" when a law involves "morals...
This year a special committee has been appointed to examine the credentials of each delegation. The status of credentials will be considered from two angles: (1) whether or not the head of the state is still in a position to exercise his legal title effectively; and (2) whether or not the government from which the credentials emanate is the de jure as well as the de facto government...
Elated yesterday afternoon by the remarks of the judge, who, it was asserted by three of the organizers, referred to their action as being for a "laudable and legal cause", one of the students divulged plans to appeal to the judge in case their plea for permission to circulate material were refused by the chief of police and the Board of Selectmen