Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleased to say your article well covered the legal points involved, unusual in lay reporting of law cases...
...hesitant, at the Manhattan bar, the law was his life. But he did not hold it in arid reverence. "The judicial process," he wrote, "is one of compromise between paradoxes, between certainty and uncertainty. . . ." Because his learning was great and his mind keen, he found his way cleanly through legal paradoxes. In his Supreme Court majority opinion upholding the Social Security Act last year, he stated the essence of the philosophy which made him "a judicial evolutionist": "Needs that were narrow or parochial a century ago may be interwoven in our day with the well-being of the nation. What...
...7/10 of 1% of Germany's population. The 48,000 Jews now in Italy are only ⅛ of 1% of the population and compared to German Jews they have been lucky. Fascists have always boasted that in Italy there is no Jewish Problem. Jews have enjoyed equal legal rights. They have been writers, bankers, businessmen, even conspicuous Fascists. But for two years there have been unofficial indications that the luck of Italian Jews may be running...
...Bronx County Courthouse one morning last week Supreme Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo heard an elderly couple plead for the setting aside of the three-day notice required for marriage in New York. Granting the plea and satisfied that the pleaders were not syphilitic -another legal requirement-Judge Cotillo married them. The couple: Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, 59, publisher of New York's tabloid Daily News, and Mary King, fiftyish, women's editor of the News and fiction editor of the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate...
...work will have two aims. A legal division will for the first time summarize in one book all State and Federal antitrust laws, fair-trade laws, laws on advertising, on trademarks, on chain stores, on co-operative marketing. An economic division will try to find what effects these laws have upon consumer costs, distribution, chain-store growth, etc. In charge is lean Augustus Heath Martin Jr., who was successively sales-promotion and wholesale manager for Chrysler and Willys-Overland and southeastern manager for Union Bag & Paper Corp., joined the Administration as coordinator for the National Bituminous Coal Commission. He first...