Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Services for George B. Magrath, professor of Legal Medicine, emeritus, and former Medical Examiner of Suffolk County, will be held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, in the Harvard Memorial Church...
...exchange of notes with Germany, begun in October and finished last week, by which he sought unsuccessfully to get Germany to make good on some $20,000,000 of Austrian bonds held by the U. S. and its nationals. Germany's reply: 1) that it felt no legal responsibility for these bonds since they were issued "to support the incompetent Austrian State artificially created by the Paris treaties"; and 2) that German trade with the U. S. was in too passive a state anyway to make payments on the bonds feasible, left the matter precisely where Mr. Hull found...
...expects to have this measure passed soon after Congress meets in January. The judges therefore must figure their need for the coming fiscal year, and Justice Roberts asked those in his bailiwick to do so last week. Other justices presumably will do likewise in the circuits where they oversee legal business...
Since 1934 the $15,000,000,000 U. S. public utility industry, rightly or wrongly convinced that the present U. S. Government is bent on sending it to the death house, has been fighting a rear-guard legal action with about as little success as Convict Tom Mooney. It has lost two major appeals in the Supreme Court. Last fortnight utility lawyers concluded a last-ditch attempt to get the currently New Dealish Supreme Court to reverse the "brutal doctrine of Chattanooga"-the opinion of a three-judge Federal Court this year that since TVA power sales are legal, utilities...
...from the college, from the graduate schools, and from Radcliffe, have quietly been working as hard as any other comparable group in the University. Obstacles in the way of the projected cooperative often seemed insuperable. There was the food to be contracted for, the cooks to be hired, the legal status to be established, the money for furnishings to be raised, and above all, the housing to be provided. In comparison to the housing all other problems were easy; the scarcity of available halls--and the rents charged for them--were appalling. Then, after weeks of search, when a satisfactory...