Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also a lawyer of distinction, Mr. Ransom brings to the Conference wide knowledge of public utility law and of the course of legal progress and education. Graduated from Cornell Law School in 1905, he was identified with the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential campaign in 1912, and then took up various duties with the New York Public Service Commission...
Prominent in the Bar Assocation, he was vice-president for New York for two years and served on committees dealing with jurisprudence and law reform, public utility law, and legal education. He acted as president of the American Bar Association for the term 1935-36, and frequently contributed to legal and economic periodicals. In January a year ago he gave a lecture at the Law School on the subject of the responsibilities confronting men entering the legal profession...
...shall have its own administration under supervision of a League High Commissioner of French nationality, 2) it shall owe allegiance to Syria three years hence when France gives up her Syrian mandate, 3) Turkey and France shall "guarantee its international integrity." Foreign Minister Dr. Aras knew that this "strictly legal and just settlement" would give Dictator Kamal Atatürk virtual dominion of Alexandretta, that Turks would have free access for their goods through Alexandretta's economically vital port...
...about "furriners" coming into the mountains, exploded: "They're a-sayin' they're goin' to take Eunice away from me. They're a-sayin' the law-makin' men in Nashville is makin' a law sayin' my marriage ain't legal. They've scared Eunice to death talkin' about sendin' her to reform school. I'm that pestered I can't plant my tobacco crop nor git no work done. All I know is they ain't goin' to take Eunice away 'thout...
...Tennessee officials discovered after hunting for legal means to void the marriage, the youngsters had put one over on the State. Since the parents approved, nothing could be done about it. Hastily drafted and passed by the State Senate was a bill setting the marriageable age for Tennessee females...