Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simultaneous with the first withdrawals, both factions would be accorded "belligerent rights." This would give the Rightists the legal right to halt and search Spanish-bound ships inside the territorial waters...
...whose Chief Justice would look Jovian in a rumble seat. They tangled from the beginning of the Great Court Battle, when Henry Agard Wallace charged that in ordering the return of $200,000,000 of AAA's invalidated processing taxes, the Supreme Court had authorized "the greatest legal steal in history." Since then the Court has come to terms with most of the organic law of the New Deal. But by last week there were signs that the Court fight was passing into a second stage, not over the drafting of New Deal law but over its administration. There...
Last week, 345,174 male members of the Dominican Party-only legal one in the Dominican Republic-went to the polls. Women were permitted to cast a "symbolic" ballot of confidence. The men voted 92% for Peynado...
...reading was praised, but the reading list did not come out until too late and assignments often disagreed with it. Of courses 13 and 19 on Constitutional Government and Law in the United States, the former Professor Wright's was the more satisfactory, requiring more time, as well. "Legal quibbling" was the description of course 19, but it was recognized that this was virtually a Law School course...
...Harper's article by Marquis Childs reviewed Hugo Black's first year on the Court from an entirely different point of view. According to Mr. Childs, several of the Black dissents were notable less for their liberalism than for technical incompetence, and furthermore, Mr. Black's legal training and experience had been revealed as painfully unequal to his job on the nation's highest tribunal. Mr. Childs wrote that Justice Black's opinions often had to be rephrased by his colleagues to conform to Supreme Court standards; that he had been unable to carry...