Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school adequately to continue to perform this function, broadening of its approach to legal issues and of the content of its curriculum is essential...
...Luis Diez may herself be interned, but the difficulty in this procedure would be that the British, sticklers for international sea law, have no strict legal right to intern a Loyalist ship because: 1) they have not formally recognized the Spanish War as other than a civil conflict; 2) they still recognize the Loyalists as the "friendly," legal Government of Spain; 3) they have not granted belligerent rights to Generalissimo Franco. Out weighing these objections, however, might easily be the consideration that a third attempt of the José Luis Diez to run for safety would again endanger British life...
...Larry, the youngest, a legal aide to the Manhattan surrogates, and his two other married sisters, Kitty and Mary...
Frank Murphy said that Frankfurter "is the natural successor of Holmes and Cardozo . . . one of the most distinguished legal scholars of our time...
...State Street's view of the appointment is of little consequence. The fact is that Roosevelt has appointed a man of integrity, ability, and tolerance to the highest legal position in the land. The charge that Frankfurter is too guided by emotion in questions of labor may be well founded, but few will deny that Harvard's professor far outshone his rivals in legal experience and vision. Perhaps Frankfurter himself hammered home the nail when he said in his book with Dean Landis on the Supreme Court, "The powers and spirit thus demanded of the bar, the universities alone...