Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order, whereupon the board would issue a "preliminary" finding, make it available to Mr. Wood for argument, and again request the Circuit Court to enforce the amended order without reopening the entire case. While less than 2% of NLRB cases appeared to be affected by the decision, an important legal principle had been uncovered by astute Mr. Wood, one which could cause the New Deal much irritation...
Last week a Bronx court completely exonerated LIFE'S Publisher Roy Edward Larsen of the obscenity charge filed against him for selling a copy of LIFE containing pictures from the cinema The Birth of a Baby. Thus ended once & for all any legal objection to the way LIFE handled the facts of life...
Louisville's modest Chancery Judge James Garnett has legal power to interpret men's minds. Last week he had to decide about the last testament of Louisville's late Civil Engineer Charles K. Needham. Needham, a sentimental bachelor who died ten years ago at 80, once read Jean Jacques Rousseau's novel Emile, wherein that 18th-Century romantic tried to persuade French mothers to nurse their own children. Persuaded in his turn, Needham bequeathed money for an annual prize ($100 to $200) for the healthiest white Louisville baby nine to 15 months old. "nourished...
...there were problems. As a trustee of the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund, Dick Whitney in the summer of 1937 handled certain perfectly legal switchings of its portfolio. With the securities in his hands and creditors on every side, Broker Whitney seemingly could not resist the opportunity to hypothecate them for personal loans as he was also doing with the securities of other customers. When Governor Edward H. H. Simmons tried to get the securities back, Dick Whitney stalled for time. Finally Mr. Simmons, who had preceded Whitney as president of the Exchange, forced the issue, got some inkling...
...shades of opinion compete for belief, is not likely to be seriously challenged by the fads and fashions that arise from time to time. With a brilliant faculty, a curriculum suited to their abilities and to changing needs, and with an admissions system likely to get the best potential legal brains, the cause of raising and maintaining high legal standards in America will be served by Harvard in the future as in the past...