Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actually, of course, the Earl of Birkenhead is sensitive to the slightest "Orient trouble" affecting India. He keeps his counsel, and sometimes he keeps it over a glass and a cigar; but when trouble is scented the quick legal mind that made him Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22) kindles, and he speaks as he did last week, before the House of Lords...
...section on Goodness, the author does not fall to include the familiar distribe on the passion in America for proyphylactic cleanliness. It is not extraordinary that our land of prohibitions both legal and moral, provides tantalizing stimulus for any sensitive observer, be he yokel or diplomat, foreigner or native wit. In this portion of the book alone does the author play the game he has chosen for though fairry adroit satire pinch-hits for the more rugged sincerity which any critical work presupposes he nevertheless concludes his observations in more commendable fashion than he approached his unfamiliar subject...
...Russia, Senator Borah said, "In the light of what has happened and is happening, it is my opinion that the United States should recognize the Russian Soviet. All of the great countries of the world except the United States have accepted the Soviet, all have recognized it to be legal and effective and I see no reason why we, a nation far distant from Russia, have any reason not to accept it. On the other hand I think there are several reasons why we should recognize the Russian Soviet. In the first place, Russia is a great potential market...
...emphasizing the latter point Professor Frankfurter has done a service to the public and to the cause of the administration of justice. People in general naturally have so little knowledge of the details of legal practice that they are apt to misunderstand the scope of a court's power and consequently the effect of its decision. Much unwarranted criticism of the courts is apt to be the result. The effect of Professor Frankfurter's study from the standpoint of the lawyer is to focus attention on the practically unlimited discretion of the trial judge in Massachusetts on matters which vitally...
...Oxford University head the list of speakers. Judge Mack, a member of the former. United States Commerce Court, is a former Overseer of the University. Professor Holdsworth, the present recipient of the Ames Prize, is the author of "The History of English Law", and is perhaps the most eminent legal historian now living...