Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most Bostonians, Massachusetts' legal holiday on April 19 is better known as the day of The Marathon than the anniversary of the first battle of the Revolutionary War. For parents who have to stand on a curbstone for hours so that their saucer-eyed brood may catch a glimpse of the first gaunt & gasping runner plodding along Commonwealth Avenue, and for motorists who are forced to detour all around town, the Marathon is a notorious nuisance. But for chronic gawps, students of foot racing and officials of the Boston Athletic Association (who sponsor the run), it is a great...
...fair could turn an honest penny, it has done so. Those who bought the most fair bonds got a break. The fair pipes in water free from the city but is metering its tenants. Concessionaires' cash registers are rented from the fair. Many are the sharp but legal practices. The usual forms of building graft were supposedly prevented by strict competitive bidding for contracts. But it is quite possible some insiders stand to profit handsomely from the real-estate boom in Flushing that is sure to come. In any case, there is likely to be little muckraking before...
Inaugurated three years ago as "an important forward step in legal education," and backed by Supreme Court Jestice William O. Douglas, a joint course coordinating studies at Yale Law School and Harvard's School of Business Administration will be discontinued next year...
However, according to students now in the course, considerable restrictions are placed upon courses which they may elect, with the result that students have been forced into courses of a purely business nature. One student found it impossible to take Legal Aspects of Business, a course which would contribute considerably to a Law School education...
Magruder is a strong New Dealer, in 1934 and 1935 acting as counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, at present legal adviser for the Wage-Hour Division, and a staunch supreme of the President's Supreme Court program...