Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday afternoon at a meeting in Kendall House, the Legal Aid Bureau, which is manned by Law School honor students, elected officers for 1939-40. The following were chosen; Edward Le C. Vogt. President; Hubert Nexon, Vice-President; William Hulburt, Treasurer; Edward Gignoux, Secretary; and Irving Panzer, Senior director on the Board...
...Attorney General ruled that it would be legal to apply a 25% penalty tariff on all dutiable German imports, except those proved unsubsidized by the Reich, before releasing them from customs. The Treasury announced such penalties would become effective April 22 and would be adjusted after release to equal the subsidy...
...could. That is the way he behaved in the chair of SEC. His care less clothes, sandy hair awry, speech plain as a pikestaff, are essentially characteristic of the young man who only 17 years ago herded sheep and bummed on box cars to get East for his legal education...
...Madison Square Garden. That rally loudly cheered Adolf Hitler and Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie") Coughlin, loudly booed President Roosevelt ("Rosenfeld" to Bund speakers). Ejected from the meeting was Pundit Dorothy Thompson, who laughed shrilly at a speaker's citation of the Golden Rule. The rally was perfectly legal, and Bund-sters' freedom of speech was protected by police. All this moved Liberal Caswell to write: "It could well be that a rather severe limitation of liberty and even a censorship might not be too high a price to pay to save democracy from complete destruction...
...congratulatory letter from Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter of the Supreme Court featured the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Legal Aid Bureau last night...