Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eugen Rosenstock, professor of the History of Law, and of Constitutional and Legal History, in the University of Breslau, in Germany, has accepted an invitation from Harvard officials to give a series of lectures, in the Government department, on revolutions. He will arrive either on Saturday or Sunday, November 18 or 19, on the Hamburg-American liner, the "Deutschland...
...Palestine, which both Jews and Arabs call their "National Home," the two peoples make themselves articulate through the Jewish National Council and the Palestine Arab Executive, respectively. Neither the Council nor the Executive have any legal status but both have much prestige. Early last week President Musa Kazem Pasha el Husseini of the Arab Executive warned Sir Arthur Wauchope that Arab young bloods intended to demonstrate at Jaffa, the port of Jerusalem, "against excessive Jewish immigration...
...which since 1929 has been appointed a standing receiver in bankruptcy in cases arising in the Federal Courts of the Southern District of New York. Representative Celler of New York, setting out to prove this "monopoly," found that since its appointment Irving Trust has paid $3,486,000 in legal fees to 361 lawyers for handling 4,419 bankruptcy cases, that the firm of Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood got most ($409,000 for handling eleven cases) ; that four firms got over $1,000,000 of the total; that the bank holds $21,000,000 deposits for bankrupts in liquidation. Irving...
...Judge Frank E. Atwood listened to the testimony last May, took the entire summer to prepare his decision. Last week he announced it. In an 11,000-word judgment, unanimously concurred in by the court, he ordered Richards' license revoked for professional malpractice. The Atwood decision may make legal history. The specific point at issue was whether the Missouri Supreme Court had original jurisdiction in the case. Richards' attorneys claimed that it did not, that it had power to adjudicate only those disbarment cases which came up through the lower courts. Judge Atwood denied this allegation, used...
...year, there is one Harvard representative on the Executive Council, as Malcolm S. Knowles '34 has been appointed to the position of Secretary-General. The other members of the Council include: Emily Lewis '34, Smith College, president; Nina Tucker '34, Wellesley College, treasurer; and, Jesse McKnight '34, Clark University, legal adviser. The agenda and the apportionment of nations to the various colleges has not yet been decided upon, but will be taken up at the next meeting of the Executive Council, to be held shortly after Saturday, November 18. The problems to be discussed, however, will concern several...