Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...someone else it would still belong to the Smithsonian. Free-lance searchers disagreed with this view. The Portland Oregonian quoted one "eminent," unnamed Oregon jurist as follows: "Anyone finding a mineral deposit (and a meteorite is a mineral) may file a claim and get possession by going through certain legal procedure at the courthouse of the county wherein it is found...
...George Rublee, 70, international lawyer and longtime legal adviser to the U. S. Government was appointed director of the prospective refugee bureau, prepared last week to sail for London to take charge...
...captain can legally perform wedding ceremonies outside the three-mile limit. From Los Angeles Eduard I. von Glatte flew his fiancée, Jane Webster, three miles up into the air, got the airliner's Captain Richard Bowman to marry them while Mrs. Bowman and her five children witnessed. After they had flown to Michigan for a honeymoon, they were informed that Los Angeles authorities did not consider the wedding legal. The quasi-newlyweds returned to California, decided to bring suit to prove that an air marriage was as good as a sea marriage...
...branch of the A. M. A.) ; 2) threatened to expel all physicians who consulted with G. H. A. staff-members; 3) barred G. H. A. doctors from Washington hospitals. Cooperative members protested loudly. Last week they won a decision from the District of Columbia Supreme Court declaring their organization legal...
...late Andrew Carnegie; to James Frederick Gordon Thomson, 41, Edinburgh lawyer; at Dornoch, Scotland. Two years ago Miss Miller and Mr. Thomson, who have been close friends since she was 3, tried to elope, were persuaded by Miss Miller's mother to wait until she was of legal...