Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hastings already has such legal luminaries as Oliver L. McCaskill, 70 (30 years at Cornell and the University of Illinois), and Arthur M. Cathcart, 75 (34 years at Stanford). Last week it named two more: Max Radin, 68, University of California philosopher and law historian, and Ernest G. Lorenzen, 72, a veteran of 27 years at the Yale School of Law. Coming next year: Harvard's famed constitutional lawyer Thomas Reed Powell...
...never by error. As to other religions, the church will certainly never draw the sword, but she will require that by legitimate means they shall not be allowed to propagate false doctrine. Consequently, in a state where the majority of the people are Catholic, the church will require that legal existence be denied to error, and that if religious minorities actually exist, they shall have only a de facto existence without opportunity to spread their beliefs. If, however, actual circumstances . . . make the complete application of this principle impossible, then the church will require for herself all possible concessions...
...vague talk of a corporate state based on the Führer principle. But last week, by presenting the names of 46,270 members, they qualified as a Mexican political party under the name of Fuerza Popular (Popular Force). For the moment, they were the only other permanently registered legal political party besides the government's Partido Revolucionario Institutional (P.R.I.). Other opposition parties-the conservative Acción Nacional, Lombardo Toledano's Partido Popular, and the Communists-were trying to corral enough signatures to qualify for the June 30 permanent registration deadline...
...University of California's Max Radin, 68, law teacher, Brandeisian philosopher and historian of the law, biographer of Marcus Brutus, indefatigable author of legal books and articles (a WPA project was once assigned to catalogue them all). A first-name friend of U.S. Supreme Court justices, Radin was nominated to the California Supreme Court in 1940, but the commission on judges turned him down (he had spoken out for Tom Mooney and Sacco & Vanzetti...
...with a few trustbusting suits where they will do some vote-getting good (with an eye on the farm vote, it plans to move against farm machinery manufacturers soon). In 39-year-old Herbert Bergson the Administration thought it had a man who would be a good politico-legal trustbuster...