Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boissy or give him his name, though he had no objection to paying lor the boy's education later and helping him out of innumerable scrapes. In 1891 little Maurice was legitimized by a good-natured Catalan dilettante. Miguel Utrillo y Molinis. Maurice Utrillo has never liked his legal name. Devoted to his mother, he signs most of his canvases Maurice Utrillo, V. (for Valadon...
...doing were unconstitutional by A. B. A. laws. Brought to a showdown on a resolution urging the Federal Government to extend civil service to all employes except top Government officials, the House of Delegates voted itself out of order, threw out all other proposals not concerned with law and legal orders. Next day, however, delegates approved a civil service resolution relating to Federal judicial posts...
Excerpts: "In recent times, . . . certain groups within the legal profession have done much to block progress and to befuddle the legislative processes. Such activities . . . have served to bring the profession into public disrepute." "The impression [has been created! that the profession serves as an instrument of obstruction. We believe this impression is fundamentally false...
...spots in the New Deal record. He takes to the direction of the Harvard Law School a wealth of training with concrete human problems. He left a professorship of law to perform this important public service. He returns with an experience that cannot fail to influence the course of legal training for a generation to come...
...legal profession has lost much of its old standing for many reasons. Mr. Landis has qualities which, disseminated over the years, might go far to recover this prestige. He combines with the clearest and fairest of minds a devotion to truth and the right that the country sorely needs in every branch of public service. Indeed, democracy can scarcely survive without the example and leading of such men in posts of responsibility. The whole legal profession is to be congratulated on President Conant's acumen. The appointment is nothing less than distinguished. --N.Y. Herald Tribune