Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Thomas ("Tom") Marshall, 72, White House librarian since 1899, retired. To the press he described the reading habits of Presidents he had known: McKinley "let Mark Hanna do most of his reading"; Roosevelt I "read about everything worth while . . . history, economics and good fiction"; Taft "had the most legal mind I ever observed." "Some people say Wilson read himself to sleep with detective stories, but I never saw any in his rooms''; Harding read "anything that came along. The wilder and woollier it was, the better. . . ." Coolidge was "a heavy digger after facts"; Hoover favored technical engineering...
...Deal. Last week about 5,000 of the country's 175,000 lawyers attended the annual convention of the American Bar Association in Cleveland. At the opening session, the A. B. A.'s outgoing president. Arthur T. Vanderbilt of Newark, dwelt on "the outstanding legal development of the 20th Century" - the Federal Government's quasi-judicial administrative agencies, such as the Securities & Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board...
...Highness suddenly made amends by packing Miss Hill and her mother off to England. But he attended their sailing party and stood on the dock while his guests waved farewell to him (see cut). Last week in London, as mother & daughter landed, the Sultan's long-time legal adviser. Roland Braddell, swarthy, bespectacled author of Lights of Singapore, hastily called in British journalists, handed them a cable just received from the Sultan: I HAVE NEVER SUGGESTED MARRYING MISS HILL STOP ANY SUGGESTION OF POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS IS A LIE STOP ANY SUGGESTION OF MY NOT FAITHFULLY CARRYING OUT ALL AGREEMENTS...
When, in 1930, Death came to John Thompson Dorrance, president and 94% owner of Campbell Soup Co., he left an estate valued at approximately $115,000.000. After long legal battles, two State inheritance taxes as well as a Federal tax were levied on the Dorrance kitty. Pennsylvania got $14,500,000; New Jersey another whopping $15,500,000. Last week, when the estate's value was finally approved by New Jersey's Orphans' Court, the Dorrance heirs (Widow Ethel and five children) found that, despite death. Depression and taxes, their fortune was bigger than ever before...
...Since no legal statute prohibits and no moral sense prevents the exploitation of the death of my son in the Spanish war for the publicity purposes of subversive politics, my patriotic chore prompts me to proclaim this 'memorial meeting' for what it is-more Moscow...