Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clarence Darrow, speaking to an audience of students that filled every seat of the Paine Hall and lined itself five deep across the back of the room, scored our modern legal, criminal and educational systems. Going to the very heart of his subject, he discussed crime in every phase of its development. Taking up the definition of crime first he showed how indeterminate a quality it is. He then passed to the punishment of crime and showed its accompanying ill effects. In concluding he placed all his stress on the training of children, offering them proper vocational guidance so that...
...Court. The commission would, like the Chancellor's Court, fill in a gap which the common law has left open. The creation of a Court of Chancery has not exhausted the power of the Sovereign to do justice in any case in which it is obvious that the existing legal and equitable procedure is inadequate. Nor would the appointment of such a commission express any lack of respect for the Trial Judge
...Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, which was founded by the Law School Society in 1913 has just concluded a most successful year. Sixteen of its members handled 100 cases, many of which went to court through the Cambridge office, and the other sixteen of the members worked in conjunction with the Boston Legal Aid Bureau. Livingston Hall 3L, Secretary
...haze of legal phraseology and latinized please which hung over the Superior Criminal Court of East Cambridge yesterday the average uninformed layman can discern three points: one, the court's decision, is a fact and therefore serious; the second is an analogy and consequently a bit whimsical; the third might be called subtle and is certainly rich in allusions...
...Japanese War for the U. S. Government. Everyone knows the fireworks that attended the climax of General Pershing's history. But who knows what Major General Crowder did in his usual working hours between 7:30 a. m. and midnight? Among other things, he was onetime Judge Advocate General (legal head) of the U. S. Army and its ablest lawyer in many a year. He was the chief author of the selective draft law? an achievement as difficult as it was unpopular. In Cuba, he ably unraveled another thankless knot. As one of the makers of its organic...