Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justices were culling during their recess last week, are some 400 cases. Of these, some 300 will be eliminated on jurisdictional grounds when hearings begin this week. And of the 100-odd cases which will appear on the original calendar for the session, three were the first New Deal legal cases to reach their final destination...
That Mrs. Vanderbilt had any legal right to her daughter Mrs. Whitney would not admit. When "Reggie" Vanderbilt died in 1925 his beauteous wife was but 20, too young to have legal custody of their baby. For ten years Mrs. Vanderbilt was content to let relatives worry over her daughter's upbringing. Three months ago she applied to be made Gloria's guardian. Mrs. Whitney countered with the charge that her sister-in-law was not a fit person to have her own daughter...
...public can derive little cheer from this flurry of legal activity. That the courts of the country have finally taken up their ponderous grinding out of justice is grim consolation indeed. The public's money, its chief concern, is gone for good. Above all, there is no escaping the realization that an efficient system of state inspection would have mitigated many of the evils that have made the present trials a necessity. In many cases, although state laws required periodic bank examinations, inspectors were inefficient in their duties and the laws governing investment of deposits not stringent enough. This crisis...
Vocational choices of this year's freshmen class, as indicated on the annual Phillips Brooks House questionaire, showed a marked increase in the number of men turning to law for their life work. Displacing medicine and surgery as the most popular field, 1938 cast 65 votes in favor of legal work, an increase of 21 votes over last year. The study of medicine and surgery fell into second place, dropping from last year's total of 63 to a popularity...
Victor M. Harding 3L, introduced the speakers, including the chairman of the Law Review, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 1936; William Piel, Jr. 3L., head of the Legal Aid Bureau; and the chairman of the Board of Student Advisers, who supervise the law clubs. The program was sponsored by the Law School Committee of Phillips Brooks House...