Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoughts are worth a few hours. Minorities as safeguards are commended. "Here we see actually at work the new tendency of international law to go beyond the State and make the individual human being the object of its solicitude". That the desire for international functional administration outruns performance of legal mechanisms is brought into clear relief...
...extra-legal matters also, Lawyer Barringer is no match for his cinema confrère. His office is less shiny, his secretary (Una Merkel) less mature, his scout and handy man (Raymond Hatton) less sly. For pleasure, Lawyer Simon likes a trip to Europe, but Lawyer Barringer goes to Miami, frequents greyhound races. Kruger acts as well as Barrymore but The Women in His Life lacks the cleverness and impact of Counsellor at Law. Good sound: Barringer's voice, hoarse with pneumonia and emotion, when he wakes up in a hospital after a drunken visit to the grave...
...back to London where she opens an antique shop and he wins a case or two. Then more troubles set in. Sinister Tono Casenove (Nils Asther) appears to blackmail Sarah. Stingy Mrs. Evers (Lorraine MacLean) refuses to give Gordon a divorce. Gossip that threatens to undo Evers' legal practice makes Sarah Casenove think that she must desert him. To top it all, Evers, with a war-bullet in his chest, discovers that he has only six more months to live. The results of surgery in If I Were Free correspond with those of gun play in The Women...
Last week's opinion was not the first of its kind for Judge Woolsey. A shy, scholarly, ponderous, blunt devotee of literature, the law, and what he calls "the art of small delights," he has been concerned with the legal nature of obscenity since 1931. In that year he ruled in favor of Dr. Marie Stope's Married Love. Three months later he rendered a favorable decision on her Contraception. He was the judge in famed plagiarism suits over Strange Interlude and Of Thee I Sing, in both of which he rendered decisions for the defendants. He earned...
...series of bi-weekly lectures on "The Revolutions in Western Civilization" will be given, starting January 9, by Eugene Rosenstock, visiting professor of legal history and government from the University of Breslau. These lectures will attempt to simplify the ideas presented in Professor Rosenstock's book. "Die Europuisihe Revolutionen", and to give a short history of Europe as a unit, not as a combination of isolated nationalities. They will be twelve in number and will be presented on every Tuesday and Thursday at 4 o'clock in Emerson...