Word: legality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been for the pressure of the Plan E Committee upon the court, the proposal would probably have been postponed for two years. The circumvention of the legal intricacies which Cambridge politicians raised to defeat the petition was worth the effort, for the idea of a city manager has many real advantages, unrealized by most American communities. Essentially it means the elimination of graft and political favoritism from metropolitan government. It provides for the appointment by the Council of a paid administrator; he runs the city, prepares the budget, appoints subordinates according to civil service laws, while the mayor loses...
Although last spring Williston and Joseph H. Beale '82, Royall Professor of Law, retired from active teaching, the specialist on contracts will lecture at the University of Texas during the second Half-year. Asked whether he intended to continue writing legal manuscripts, he said: "I've written all my treatises. When you get to be 77 years old, you can only do one thing at a time...
Officers and personnel of the Legal Aid Bureau an organization of Law School students which provides professional advice for the needy and at the same time practical experience for future lawyers, were announced today from its headquarters in Kendall House...
Participants in the enterprise are honor students at the Law School, selected on the basis of their accomplishments in legal studies...
While sentencing a forger in Klamath Falls, Ore., Circuit Judge Edward B. Ashurst (brother of Arizona's polysyllabic Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst) digressed to criticize a bill for overtime submitted by Court Clerk Walter Hannon, called it disgraceful, intimated that it was not legal. Hopping mad, Clerk Hannon waylaid the judge on the courthouse steps a few hours later, beat the daylights out of him. Battered and bruised, Judge Ashurst summoned the Grand Jury into immediate session...