Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honorary degrees from Princeton, Yale); Poet Archibald MacLeish, newly appointed Librarian of Congress (Doctor of Letters, Yale); U. S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter (Doctor of Civil Law, Oxford), who was saluted with a Latin pun: Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas (Happy indeed is he who can understand legal arguments...
...loss of face. But even if the Japanese are able to clear the money-changers out of Tientsin, there remain Shanghai and the illegal black bourses in Tsingtao and other Chinese cities in which there are no foreign concessions or settlements. And if Shanghai were seized the legal black bourse could move to British-owned Hong Kong...
...Crony Boyles is more active. The Governor's official legal aide and unofficial Pooh-Bah, he not only dispenses legal advice, but sometimes signs State papers in the Dickinson name. Himself and Colleague Moyer he modestly characterizes as "just a couple of fellows hanging on to the public tit." Other Dickinson indispensables include: smooth, young Secretary Leslie Butler-who siphons callers so carefully into his master's office that the Detroit Citizens' League once complained: "Honest citizens can't get in" -and Personal Secretary Margaret Shaw, whom, the Governor says, God sent him. ("I know there...
...office every morning the Governor prays for five minutes (see cut). Prayer, he says, brought him Boyles & Moyer, helped him choose many another political appointee. ("We were looking for a man to fill a certain State office. Suddenly the name . . . was made clear to me. I mentioned it. My legal aide, Emerson R. Boyles, said to me: 'You have a pipeline.' 'Yes,' I said, 'I have a pipeline...
Frustrated civil-service advocates promptly asked Circuit Judge Clyde I. Webster in Detroit to declare 1) that "Lieutenant Governor Dickinson" has no legal claim to be Governor, 2) the civil-service wrecker was unconstitutional, illegally signed by a nonexistent Governor. Their grounds: the State constitution provides 1) in the event of the Governor's death or incapacity, the Lieutenant Governor shall serve "until the disability ceases," 2) the Governor shall fill vacated offices by appointment. One William P. Long of Detroit maintains that Luren Dickinson should have taken the gubernatorial office, then ended the "disability" by appointing another...