Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important step not only in the work of Phillips Brooks House but in the history of the Harvard Law School, will be taken next week when the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau will be established. This Bureau will undertake without charge to give legal advice, to draw up contracts and other papers, and to appear in court in behalf of clients. All this service will be free to anyone who cares to use it. Whenever the matter is too serious to be handled by the Bureau itself, a capable lawyer will be employed...
...Harvard Legal Aid Bureau will be conducted by 25 men of high standing in the second and third-year classes in the Law School. An office will be rented in Central Square, and will be kept open two hours in the afternoon and two in the evening...
Raymond Dennett '36, Graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House, revealed yesterday that the P. B. H. Station Wagon which has been employed in social work during the last year is being put up for sale. The reason for the action, Dennett stated, was that legal difficulties arose in registering the car, the University Corporation and P. B. H. both sharing its ownership...
...estate holdings did not amount to more than 10% of their assets, if the rent they charged was not more than $9 a month a room. Other States followed. Because of the various State laws there is no generalizing about the life insurance business, but recent figures for 49 legal reserve life insurance companies with 92% of the total life insurance assets show $4,686,000,000 (19% of their assets) in mortgage loans, $2,000,000,000 (8%) in real estate...
...been wrong . . . that he felt that a public confession was due from him. . . . He added that he was determined to meet the consequences. In 36 years of experience at the bar I had never heard such an astonishing statement. . . . There are other men without number who have sought legal advice to avoid or delay the law, have lent a willing ear to tactics or procrastination, have stooped to pleas denying mental or moral responsibility or have chosen the coward's course of flight from the country or from life. . . . Never once has he faltered. Never once has he asked...