Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While awaiting the Corporation's decision, the Committee continued its organizing activity under Robert E. Lane '39, chairman. A legal expert in Boston has been consulted on the technicalities of securing affidavits. A telegram pleading for an affidavit for a Vienna Kreisler Prize winner, threatened with jail, was received by Ernest M. Jondorf '41, Chairman of the Affidavit Committee, from a Long Island, New York, family...
Although Federal Communications Commission Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch thinks purge is a nasty word, last week he persuaded his commission to oust three more FCC staff men, bringing his purge score to seven. By abolishing FCC's examining division, incorporating the examiners in the legal division under McNinch's right-hand man. General Counsel William James Dempsey, FCC sidestepped civil service statutes and fired Chief Examiner Davis G. Arnold, Examiner Melvin H. Dalberg. Similar action ousted Publicity Man G. Franklin Wisner. But FCC will not be without a pressagent. Marion Livingston Ramsay was borrowed for 90 days from...
...elsewhere, its folklore. That church must embody the fundamental truth and principle which give the State its greatness. At the same time that church must not impose ridiculous unnecessary sacrifices on the great mass of the people. The fact that today the established church of the modern State is legal and economic, promising security for this life rather than for the hereafter, distinguishes us from the Middle Ages...
...defendants, which not only eliminates the practices complained of but goes farther and offers provisions in the public interest . . . it will be considered. . . ." In short, before the Department of Justice would call off its suit. Ford and Chrysler had to agree to stop doing something they had a legal right to do. Warned Thurman Arnold: "The decrees in the present cases may become most important precedents in preventing the misuse of advertising power in other fields...
...Cessante ratione, cessat ipsa lex" is a learned and Latin way of saying that when the reason for a law ceases to exist, the law itself dies with it. And to a distinguished professor up at the Law School, this little tag strikes at the very root of the legal system. In fact, it is reliably reported that this jurist injects the quotation at least four times into each of the profound and erudite dissertations he hurls at his disciples Mondays through Thursdays...