Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Several "gold clause" cases in which holders of Liberty bonds, payable in "gold coin" but called up for redemption in "legal tender," contend that the redemption call was invalid and that the U. S. still owes them interest on the bonds...
...years, the leadership of the Court's controlling sentiment falls to the Court's oldest member. After 21 years on the losing side, Louis Dembitz Brandeis (pronounced: Brand-ice), the Court's senior liberal, emerges at the political forefront of a body which as a superb legal technician he has distinguished for two decades with his deep scholarship and juridical goodwill...
Ground on which Brandeis' nomination was challenged was a belief that his legal and economic philosophy was dangerously radical. The grounds for the belief lay in no political activities, but in the record of 37 years of practice which had made Louis Brandeis a national figure as Boston's "People's Lawyer." The somewhat prodigious son of a prosperous Louisville grain merchant who had emigrated from Prague in 1848, Louis Brandeis went to Harvard Law School in 1875, in time to hear, at the house of a professor, a paper on education, read in a quavering...
Court Building, does his work. The apartment, like the Cape Cod cottage where the Justice still spends his summers, has been a meeting place at one time or another for a generous quorum of most of the ablest younger legal minds in the U. S. There Justice Brandeis will this week celebrate his 81st birthday in the assurance that the next years in his grand-scale life may still be the greatest...
...last week. In an effort to replenish his diminishing funds, the Negus was juggling several lawsuits in the air at once. Pleading that his client, the Emperor of Ethiopia was in a "distressing position," a Paris attorney attempted to convince the French High Court that Haile Selassie was the legal owner of 8,650 shares of Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad stock worth some $1,500,000. Backing away from a decision that Premier Mussolini would consider hostile, the court decided it was incompetent to rule on the international law involved...