Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suey restaurant of Fung Kwok-dong, plunked down on a table a naked boy infant, offered to sell him for $1. Fung Kwok-dong impassively handed over a dollar bill. Two years later when the mother tried to get her son back Fung Kwok-dong went to court, won legal possession. The white babe was legally adopted and given the name Fung Kwok-keung...
...utilities counsel table gloom slowly spread over the face of the late Newton D. Baker's Cleveland law partner, William H. Bemis. For by the time Florence Allen, several gulps of water and 70 minutes later, had finished reading it was clear that TVA had scored a monumental legal victory...
Damage Without Injury. Immediate aim of the suit, which Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell P. Willkie and his associates had planned as a last stand in the three-year-old legal fight against TVA, was to stop the sale of electricity generated by the three TVA darns already built (including Wilson Dam started during the War and transferred from the War Department to TVA in 1933); to restrict de-velopment of four dams now under construction and a fifth authorized but not yet begun; to prevent TVA from getting Congressional funds for four more dams. TVA attorneys maintained that...
...England there exists a Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society, which a year ago failed to get the House of Lords to pass a bill making mercy killing legal. Last February one of Dr. Potter's high-placed disciples, John H. Comstock of the Nebraska Legislature, failed to persuade that body to legalize the unorthodox procedure. Last week Dr. Potter promised that Mr. Comstock will try again this term. Other disciples promised to introduce similar bills in the Ohio and New York Legislatures and in Congress. If these bills become law, anyone who can get two disinterested doctors to convince...
...Madison, Wis., slightly less than four months ago, a jury, mostly made up of farmers, began to listen to complicated legal arguments, conducted furiously by a total of 66 attorneys. In succeeding weeks, marching in twos and vigilantly guarded, the twelve jurymen and two alternates were occasionally taken out to exercise on the shores of Lake Mendota. For Christmas they had a tree in the juryroom and as a special favor they were allowed to speak to their families. Their mail was carefully censored. They were not allowed to see The Life of Emile Zola because of the courtroom scenes...