Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...safely leave the matter to me, Mr. Drake. Of course, you understand there are legal formalities. . . . As a retainer suppose you give me your check...
Professor Auguste Piccard, ecstatic Swiss voyageur of the stratosphere (TIME, Aug. 29), kidnapped his neighbor's dog fortnight ago, had all the dog's teeth pulled. To the astonished neighbor the professor explained: "I looked up my legal rights and found that I was justified." Professor Piccard's motive was fear that the dog might bite the Piccard children, whom he left behind in Brussels last week as he started a tour of the Western Hemisphere to lecture. Mme Piccard, grumping bitterly over the interruption of her home life, and two of their five children accompanied...
...Minnesota preacher took the opposite view last week, and so gave a new twist to a recurrent religious problem. The U. S. Supreme Court has held that a native-born U. S. citizen is under a legal obligation to bear arms in war. Many a U. S. religious leader, and a large section of the Christian Press, hold on the contrary that God's will is more binding. Notable were the cases of Rosika Schwimmer, Yale Professor Douglas Clyde Macintosh and Nurse Marie Averill Bland, aliens who were refused citizenship because they refused to promise unqualifiedly to bear arms...
Professor Chafee, admitting it is difficult to prescribe a uniform pre-legal curriculum for everyone, declared: "A chief count in the indictment of college education is that it fails to develop a desire for reading books in fields outside of courses...
Other matters of moment to the convened law teachers: discussion of social planning through law, by Dean Albert James Harno of the University of Illinois College of Law, president of the Association; suggestion that legal ethics are best absorbed by a student working in a law office (Lawyer R. Allan Stephens of Springfield, Ill.); the report of the Committee on Co-operation with the American Law Institute, dealing with restatement of U. S. lawr, a monster enterprise of which one volume has already been published...