Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Garland Sevier Ferguson Jr., 59, a North Carolina Democrat who was appointed by Calvin Coolidge and reappointed by President Roosevelt though rated the most conservative member of the commission. Much of his legal experience was gained as a lawyer for Southern Ry. In the general division of FTC duties, tall, baldish, able Mr. Ferguson tends to trials and examinations...
Charles Hoyt March, 66, a Hoover appointee reappointed by President Roosevelt; handsome, heavyset, a onetime lawyer whose particular hate is monopolies. His pet case at the moment is the Cement Institute (TIME, July 12). Colonel March's FTC specialty is the legal...
Died. Dr. Walther Simons. 75, onetime (1925) Acting President of the German Reich, onetime (1922-29) President of the German Supreme Court; in Berlin. At the end of the World War, Dr. Simons was director of the Legal Department of the German Foreign Office. He went to the Peace Conference at Versailles as Commissioner-General, resigned a week before the treaty was signed, thereafter became one of its most stubborn opponents...
...University of Wisconsin's Law School, good-natured, baldish, ruddy-cheeked Lloyd Kirkham Garrison whose famed great-grandfather helped free the slaves, grinned with pleasure as Governor Philip La Follette signed a new law to free debt-bur-dened low-income earners in Wisconsin from the legal restraints of garnishment...
Lawyers pondered the possible legal harvest of Mr. Mae West's suit. Under California law, property, except gifts, acquired by either husband or wife after marriage becomes community property, owned half & half by either spouse. Mae West's 1935 income was $480,000. Her current worth, mostly acquired since the 1911 wedding, is estimated as $3,000,000. Mae West's husband might not be tall, dark nor handsome but the inside of his head was apparently not as bald as the outside. He had said he wished to vindicate his honor, money was of secondary moment...