Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students who become involved with the law in any manner except a criminal action may receive the services of the Legal Aid Bureau of the Law School. The members of the staff are all students but the record of cases shows that all but a small fraction are completed in favor of their clients...
...bulk of the student cases concern the multitude of contracts which they are urged to sign during the first two weeks of their career each fall. Many of them turn out to be unsatisfactory and the Legal Aid Bureau takes upon itself the task of making adjustments or going to court to force settlements if necessary...
...members are admitted to all the courts despite their amateur standing but the great majority of cases are settled without resorting to legal action. Even more important is the advice which the members are ready to give students who may be involved in any number of cases ranging from divorce to libel...
Transferred to the U. S., Story became their legal property, the Burnetts staying on as editors, working alternate weeks as usual. Under the Cerf management. Story grew to some 30,000 circulation but it got few advertisements, showed no profit. It attracted the manuscripts of many an ambitious U. S. writer, "discovered" William Saroyan, Tess Slesinger, Peter Neagoe, Dorothy McCleary. Surprising was the fact that the stories in Story were not better than they were. To describe them critics invented the phrase, "The Over-the-Edge-of-the-Table School," meaning that Story stones generally had the point of view...
Discovering that big psychopathic institutions did not welcome dipsomaniacs, whose cure is long and uncertain, William Seabrook encountered legal and medical difficulties in entering the institution he had chosen.* But they were nothing compared with the difficulty of getting out again...