Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home in Baltimore a young man who said his name was Charles Alexander and who promised to deliver the appointment for $1,000. Applicant Ives gave him a promissory note for the sum. Few days later Ives learned that a bought appointment was illegal, went to Washington, demanded a "legal appointment" of Congressman Hoeppel. Failing to get it, he "resigned" from West Point...
...early days of 1933 when frozen assets had put most U. S. banks in hot water, the general counsel of RFC frequently used to spend 18 hours a day on the legal problems of bank relief. Even in those busy days, though, Stanley Forman Reed was under less strain than he was last week. Since he became U. S. Solicitor General last March, he has fought one great case on behalf of the New Deal-the Schechter (NIRA) Case-and lost...
Most intelligent laymen regard the jargon of lawyers as an obvious trade trick, a professional pig-Latin calculated to obscure otherwise simple matters and impress clients with the indispensability of their services. Fortunately, most of their pompous verbal mumbo-jumbo is harmless tautology. But at least one legal usage- "and/or"-is dangerous nonsense...
...and/or,' that befuddling, nameless thing, that Janus-faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of a brain of someone too lazy or too dull to express his precise meaning, or too dull to know what he did mean, now commonly used by lawyers in drafting legal documents, through carelessness or ignorance or as a cunning device to conceal rather than express meaning with view to furthering the interest of their clients. We have ever observed the 'thing' in statutes, in the opinions of courts, and in statements in briefs of counsel, some learned and some...
Richard A. Stout '29, Secretary, Legal Department, Shell Petroleum Corporation, Houston, Texas...