Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Statesman." After Dr. Benes received the British and French demand that he yield to Germany most of the Sudeten territory of Czechoslovakia, it was smart to keep the Great Powers waiting nervously for 30 hours last week while in Prague the President and Premier Milan Hodza labored with legal experts, finally produced not a note of capitulation but a suave reply to Britain and France in which the Czecho-slovak Government offered to "arbitrate the whole Sudeten question under an old treaty with Germany which they had dug out of their files...
...insemination is equally simple. With a syringe a gynecologist introduces a few drops of semen directly into the cervical canal, lower part of the uterus. Best time for artificial insemination is the fertile period occurring from ten days to two weeks after menstruation begins. More complicated are the legal arrangements. Both husband and wife must sign a joint agreement permitting the wife to bear the child of a third person. The identity of the donor is kept secret, and if he is married his wife must give her written consent as well. Other practical suggestions made by Drs. Frances Isobel...
...liabilities are over $3,000,000. The commission is thus given the duty of serving as the advocate of investors and of giving courts the benefit of impartial expert opinion. These advisory reports will also be sent to all investors involved. If necessary, a court may make SEC a legal party to reorganization proceedings. But SEC has no authority either to prevent or require adoption of a reorganization plan, no power to restore lost investments in such reorganizations...
...CASE OF THE SHOPLIFTER'S SHOE -Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Shoplifting, jewel thefts and two murders solved by unorthodox, Legal Juggler Perry Mason. Less exciting than Mason's best cases, but satisfactorily murderous...
Lord Wright is now a member of the House of Lords, the highest legal tribunal of England. He was formerly Master of the Rolls and before becoming a Law Lord was a Judge of the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division. He has been chairman of the Committee on Law Revision and has been the author of numerous articles on current English law. The English peer was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and holds honorary LL.D.'s from the Universities of Birmingham and London...