Word: legalisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...national figures volunteer their energy, intelligence and time-Frank Orren Lowden as chairman of a subcommittee on pardons, penal laws and institutional correction; Newton Diehl Baker as chairman of a committee on rehabilitating criminals and acting chairman of the whole; Franklin Delano Roosevelt as chairman of a committee on legal education; F. Trubee Davison as executive committeeman -last week published a report by Mr. Lowden's committee. Written by Commissioner Louis Newton Robinson, experienced professor of economics and criminology, this report set forth, as prime cause of crime's prevalence in the U. S., "the lack of average...
From South Africa to Fleet Street the Empire was piquantly all of a twitter, last week, over Dawn, the furiously contested cinemastory of the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, Feb. 20). At the nub of controversy jutted the fact that Great Britain has been "muddling through" without a legal system of film censorship. Therefore, last week, the interplay of moral suasion was untrammeled and magnificently British. Some felt, and some did not, that to project the story of Nurse Cavell once more upon the world would be to revive War mentality at its worst and embitter Anglo-German relations...
...Returning to the nub, it became evident last week that legislation must be enacted to supplant the present grandiloquently named but impotent British Board of Film Censors, chairmanned by famed "Tay Pay" O'Connor, now vacationing in the U. S. (TIME, March 5). The Board possesses no legal jurisdiction, but by commercial agreement its recommendations are obeyed in the numerous theatres of the British Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association...
...Legal intricacies such as this are by no means the least of aviation's concern. Forty-eight states are seeking the perfect code to answer all such problems. Eager to be in the forefront of trailblazers, New York State last week passed "model'' bills for the regulation of fliers and aircraft and the development of aviation, suggesting: "Other states please copy...
...purpose of the Legal Aid Society is to furnish free legal aid to students in the University. The society's offices are located in Central Square, and office hours are held every day from 4 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon and from 7 to 9 o'clock in the evening. The Society will close the Central Square offices on April 1, and will open them again on October...