Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explaining the modern conception of marriage to an eager mixed audience of the Harvard and Radcliffe Unity Clubs last Tuesday, Rev. William H. Gysan warned the young ladies to supervise the making of their husbands' wills. Be sides discussing the legal aspects of marriage, he dealt with the modern idea of birth control...
...which menace every person in the country. The State Militia exists to protect the interests of the majority of citizens when every other method of protection has failed. In the case of the Parkor Dam project, the interests of the citizens of Arizona have already been amply insured by legal contracts. They need no further, and particularly no military protection. There is great danger of Governors in other states following Arizona's example. This country may see the State Militias transformed from a bodyguard of the people to a bodyguard of the Governor, a political weapon...
Like other U. S. Ambassadors, when delegated to negotiate and sign treaties, "Joe" Grew by a legal fiction is "Frank" Roosevelt. Were he to sign a treaty at Tokyo tomorrow, Ambassador Grew would figure in it as "[for] the President of the United States: Joseph Clark Grew...
Last week, however, 13 embattled coal and ice companies went before a Tennessee circuit judge, convinced him of their interest in the matter, got him to issue a writ forbidding the sale of the Knoxville properties until the whole deal could be reviewed from the legal and constitutional angle...
Harlan F. Stone, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, has written an article entitled "Public Influence of the Bar," in which he suggests a closer bond between the legal profession and the law schools with a view to encouraging interest among lawyers in law reform. He states that certain corrupt practices are in existence which the bar has made little effort to stamp out be cause it is paying so much attention to individual cases rather than to the law in general...