Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whether Harvard would be breaking any law by ignoring this statute is hard to say. As it is perfectly clear, however, that Harvard would be charged with being a law-breaker by many ignorant people whatever the true legal situation is, it is doubtless proper to avoid such charge unless serious principle is at stake...
...Sanctions Mean War!" Such action is called in League parlance "invoking sanctions." In law a sanction is any measure applied to a wrongdoer to make him comply with what the community has made right and legal. Sanctions contemplated by the Covenant of the League are of four kinds: 1) moral and diplomatic measures, such as recalling all diplomats accredited to the wrong-doing State; 2) financial and economic measures, such as refusing further credit; 3) international boycott, to deprive the wrongdoer of all trade; and 4) force, or the declaration of war on the wrongdoer by League States...
...young New Deal lawyers, present last week only as "friends of the court," this legal background appeared distinctly "suspicious." SECounsel Burns questioned the court's jurisdiction, accused the interested lawyers of "collusion" and "professional impropriety." Those are serious charges in any court and, coming from a man about half his age, they made Mr. Davis boil. Rising with dignity he thundered...
...School men know that Dean Pound, 65, is one of the ranking U. S. authorities on jurisprudence, a tireless legal reformer who has long campaigned to simplify and de-emotionalize legal processes, adapt English common law to 20th Century U. S. conditions. His most famed dictum: "The law must be stable but cannot stand still...
...more prominent humorists of last year is embarking on a legal career at the Law School. At one of his first classes, he was called upon to explain a case under discussion. It is said that he stumbled so badly that the professor felt called upon to ask him if he were prepared...