Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will deny that the tradition of lynch law is the most disfiguring scab on the face of the United States. It comes with the moronic level of intelligence of an infuriated mob. Slow education in reverence for legal procedure can alone remove the curse. A self-righteous and strong-arm policy on the part of the Washington government can have no other outcome than inflaming an already irritated section of the country. There are already encouraging indications of the Costigan-Wagner bill floundering under the weight of its own quixotism...
...imparting of knowledge--higher education has tended toward the other and slower procedure. For example, instead of the older practice of lectures and reading text-books, the law schools began sixty years ago to use the case method of instruction--much slower so far as the bare learning of legal principles by sheer memory is concerned, but much more effective in teaching law students to think. And the system has spread from school to school until it has now been adopted almost everywhere in America...
...garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table d'hôte that evening, Jane Dale leaves the table. Nor is her appetite stimulated by a legal complication possible in Louisiana whose laws are based on the Code Napoleon. She admits owing Shevlin $60 for parts of his car which she bribed a mechanic to trans fer to hers. Palpably she, a debtor, was attempting to leave the state. According to the law, that situation gives the creditor...
...second, wastrel son of a millionaire. When he goes to call on the first husband and finds him murdered, Perry Mason's mood approaches hilarity. With his belligerent assistant Spudsy (Allen Jenkins) and his attractive secretary (Claire Dodd), he begins cracking jokes and upsetting the ethics of the legal profession. By the time his gaiety has started to subside, the murderer has been discovered, Perry Mason is about to embark for China...
...particular significance at this time, since the policy of Great Britain at the forthcoming Stresa Conference depends largely upon the attitude of the United States. The Nye-Clark resolutions, which express a willingness to abandon our traditional insistence on the "freedom of the seas" in a technically legal sense, would--if adopted--encourage the English in the belief that the American navy would not oppose British blockade of an aggressor nation. Thus the way for acceptance by England of greater responsibility for the maintenance of peace actually a strengthening of the League of Nations--would be opened...