Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dissenting opinions on questions of the reasonableness of legislation are proving starting points for constructive reasoning, and he is likely to be counted a maker of the bill of rights as Marshall was of the provisions fixing the powers of the general government. Furthermore, he was a great legal historian and later a leader in the movements which have remade the science of law in the present century...
...Peppered Sir Arthur Michael Samuel, one of Britain's greatest financial-legal experts and onetime Financial Secretary to the Treasury, for an opinion on the U. S. Supreme Court's gold clause decision...
...viceregal banquet of Lieutenant Governor Dr. Herbert Bruce (TIME, Feb. 11). At the Legislature's opening last week "Mitch" definitely welshed. He had threatened to deny George V's representative the royal salute. It crashed and thundered as Royal Canadian Dragoons saluted in Dr. Bruce by a legal fiction "the person of the King." Admirers of "Mitch" had expected him to bar the Lieutenant Governor from Ontario's Throne. Instead dignified old Dr. Bruce, with radiant young Mrs. Bruce on his arm (see cut), entered the Legislature not only unmolested but followed at a respectful distance...
...opinion of Federal Judge William Irwin Grubb of Alabama, the Government has no right to engage in the power business except to dispose of a surplus incidental to the exercise of some other Constitutional function. So said the wiry little septuagenarian jurist last autumn during the legal preliminaries of an injunction suit to restrain the Tennessee Valley Authority from buying private Alabama power properties (TIME...
...cheerfulness endured famine and nakedness and the world's ingratitude; and sitting in gaol, with one hand left him, wrote our joyfullest, and all but our deepest, modern book, and named it Don Quixote." Not a letter or a manuscript of Cervantes has survived, nothing but a few legal documents, "residuum of his continual poverty...