Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the annual report of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau which was made public recently, the year 1934-35 was the most successful in the history of the organization...
...former Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina, a conservative liberal who now has a rich corporate law practice, was persuaded by the President last week to take the job. With Max Gardner's name at the head lending an air of conservatism, a staff of sharp young legal assistants will dig into A. T. & T. looking for dirt...
Arguments. The Government's position that the Constitution's commerce clause empowered Congress to regulate intrastate business when it "affected" interstate affairs had by now become classic. But this time the classic argument was being put by the New Deal's high legal command. Counsel Richberg's gist: "If 1,000 automobiles are obstructing traffic, it isn't necessary to prove conspiracy in order to produce order by putting traffic in lanes. That is the regimentation which we have heard so much about. If it were not for regimentation, reckless drivers would make traffic impossible...
With this information, the Court closed its hearings, recessed while it studied the problem of reconciling NIRA with the Constitution. Expected was a decision before June 16, last day of NRA's present legal life...
...Princeton no longer need to resort to ill feelings and emotional reactions to settle differences. But, aside from the present significance of the agreement, it should serve as a guidepost for all future occasions and as an example to other contesting colleges as well. There is no need for legal decisions when sportsmanship prevails. The Daily Princetonian...