Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Senator Keane (Victor Jory) into a Presidential threat is to inaugurate a rival boom for Irene's husband. Last-minute legerdemain with a previous marriage of Irene's cuts short the boomeranging boom by intimating that, as husband of a woman whose foreign divorce has no legal standing, Justice Hibbard has been living in sin for ten years...
...Stagnation is not the course of the law; it cannot be the course of legal training" he remarked in making the announcement...
...private powermen. And in the opinion of Washington ob- servers he was not likely to compromise unless Recession grew even blacker. The pressure from the Right wing of the Administration was heavy but his advisers on the Left wing urged him to hold out until after the major legal tests of the power program are decided. The Duke Power case (PWA grants), and the Electric Bond & Share case (holding companies) await the attention of the Supreme Court. The famed 19-company challenge to TVA's constitutionality was on trial last week in Chattanooga. It is the first important case...
...expected that the paper winning the award offered to Harvard students will be published in the local periodicals and that the best paper received from all schools in the competition will be published in an outstanding legal journal of national circulation...
...criticised the legal profession for its unwillingness to accept the progressive principles of administrative law. Our present legal set-up cannot resist for long, he feels, the multitude of new claims made upon it by our complex civilization...