Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention floor manager; Celeste Jedel, 22, a pretty honor student out of one of his Barnard classes; Annette Pomerene, 23, a tall, dark, crisp graduate of Hunter College. Celeste Jedel has her desk in his office, is carried on the department's rolls as a member of its legal staff. She used to help Dr. Moley run his Barnard classes, manage his tea parties. So well does she know the current of his mind that she can, if necessary, write letters, articles, speeches for him. A feature of the Assistant Secretary's office routine is what he calls...
...Boston court of U. S. District Judge James Arnold Lowell, cousin of Harvard's president, had gone N. A. A. C. P. attorneys seeking a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Lowell, an individualist on & off the bench where he has sat for eleven years, granted the writ. His legal reasoning: Virginia does not permit Negroes to serve on juries; therefore any conviction of George Crawford would be voided by the Supreme Court as contrary to the 14th Amendment. Declared Judge Lowell: "The only persons who would get any good out of it would be the lawyers. The whole thing...
Bostonians know Judge Lowell, whose mother was an Emerson, as the jurist who wears flashy cravats and lurid waistcoats, waves to friends from the bench, potters about with flowers. They like to bracket him as a legal libertarian with those other two Massachusetts justices, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Dembitz Brandeis. In 1930 Judge Lowell suffered a paralytic stroke that affected his walk. Last year when a Prohibition case based on wiretapping was before him, he effected an acquittal by addressing the jury thus: "We love to think of Uncle Sam as a thoroughly upright man. . . . Let us look...
...seeing this picture. One of old Otto Hoffman's sons is killed in the War. With the arrival of Prohibition, his best barrel-roller (Charles Bickford) turns 'legger. Hoffman (Jean Hersholt) patiently awaits the day when brewing will be legal again but by the time it arrives, he has lost most of his money and some of his good humor. When beer is finally legalized, gangsters shoot old Hoffman and it takes his son (Richard Arlen) and several friends to avenge the old man's death with tactics they learned in the Army. Somewhere in all this...
Hudson has been professor at the Harvard law School since 1923, and ha written extensively on international affairs. He was attached to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at Paris in 1918-19 and has been legal adviser to other international delegations...