Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides removing this burden from the Supreme Court, the new Court of Appeals for Administration, which should be experienced in both legal and administrative matters, "could do what neither the Congress nor the Supreme Court has none: regularize the procedure of the quasi-judicial administrative agencies and evolve a common law of administration," he said...
...occasion is the annual touch football game between the Law Review and the Legal Aid Bureau. According to agreements published by the aid society "no practice is to be had by either side prior to the game...
...courage," applauded Mayor LaGuardia, and other New Yorkers agreed. For besides being a good Democrat, William Francis Xavier Geoghan is a good Roman Catholic, a fact important to Governor Lehman last week. Mr. Lehman was persuaded to run this year only on condition that his legal Man Friday, 35-year-old former Supreme Court Justice Charles Poletti, share his responsibilities as Lieutenant Governor. This move angered Roman Catholics and conservatives because it entailed the dropping of Catholic Lieut. Governor M. William Bray in favor of American Laborite Poletti, who is neither. To appease Catholics, the Lehman forces pointed to renominated...
...theorist responsible for this Duke retreat is the Law School dean, tanned, pipe-smoking Hugo Claude Horack, a hunter and fisherman. Dean Horack used to be investigator of legal education for the American Bar Association, and he concluded that the best place for barristers to learn law and social responsibility is in a quiet, simple atmosphere. Last summer he had five log cabins built as an experiment. One is a recreation centre. Eight students live and study in each of the others. But students are spared Abraham Lincoln's handicaps. They study not by firelight but by electric light...
...sabre-rattling" discourse fortnight ago and would certainly 'help business generally. What was more, said Mr. Roosevelt, the utility industry would discover that the so-called "death sentence" was really a health sentence and would revitalize the industry (see p. 9). Said Mr. Douglas: "When the legal, business, banking and operating brains of the utility industry decide to act, it really moves...