Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wandered into the jury box, his honor leaned over his bench, barked: "Here boy! Sit over there!" One of the Negroes lost no time explaining that his boss had recently shot himself while hunting, urgently needed him back home to run things. Two others guessed they were past the legal age limit of 65 for jurymen. One by one, the dusky dozen who would no more have dreamed of sitting on a jury with the "white captains" than they would of walking up and slapping the devil in the face, escaped from the courthouse by their own devices or were...
Maps of these lands and grave legal comment on the treaty situation are now beginning to appear in London. It is not felt that any of the onetime German colonies now forming an integral part of the British Empire can or should be returned to Germany. In this connection the new King some years ago proved himself sound when a U. S. Senator suggested that since Britain was unable to pay her War debt in cash the Empire might. prefer to dis charge its obligation by ceding the British West Indies to the U. S. in part payment. In Barbados...
...jobbed his way through Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., washing his own clothes, living at times in a tent. Burning for a big university degree, he arrived at Columbia Law School with 6? in his pocket. Before he graduated high in his Class of 1925 he had written a legal text book for a correspondence course. In his last year he taught three courses on the side...
...attack, pin-game entrepreneurs had the foresight, even before Mayor LaGuardia's ban went into effect, of trying a completely new expedient: election of a "Tsar," like baseball's Landis and cinema's Hays, to tell them what kind of pin-game operation is legal, to intercede with authorities on their behalf when necessary, to help prevent "racketeers" from gaining control of the industry. For Pin Tsar, the Amalgamated Operators' Association, the Greater New York Operators' Association, the Metropolitan Jobbers' Association and the Skill Games Board of Trade chose no less a personage than...
...Followed some delicate negotiations between the Admiralty and the sailors' delegates. Finally an agreement was reached. But the promised reforms had to go through Parliament, and the suspicious sailors, irked by the delay, mutinied again. This time there was bloodshed. Thoroughly alarmed, the Government rushed the changes into legal form, got a royal pardon for the reformers. Everything ended happily: many an unpopular officer was relieved or transferred and not a single mutineer was punished...