Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the loudspeaker when it was working again Convict Mooney poured the sorry tale that has become his lifework. (In his San Quentin cell the walls are lined with 20 volumes of legal records in his case.) Rambling back to his childhood, he explained how a beating when he played hookey from school "made Tom Mooney rebel"; how his activities as an agitator caused San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to take "possession of the District Attorney's Office"; how when the Preparedness Day bomb exploded he and his wife were elsewhere. Said he: "Tom Mooney...
...only definite innovation he is contemplating is a seminar in political and legal philosophy, embracing, among others, the fields of the social sciences. He is now in the process of gathering material for this...
Overcrowding in the legal profession, Pound said, in response to a question, should be attacked not by restricting admissions to the law schools but by greater strictness in qualifications for admission to the bar. The problem of relating the teaching and practice of law involves a delicate balance between extremes of theory and practicality, said Pound, using the Seylla and Charybdis image, with the danger both of losing contact with the profession and becoming too closely attached...
...volume called The Folklore of Capitalism which, published last November (TIME, Jan. 3), has since sold 20,000 copies. Author of The Folklore of Capitalism is an irreverent, eloquent 46-year-old Yale law professor named Thurman Wesley Arnold whose previous career included a term in the Wyoming Legislature, legal work for the New Deal as a trial examiner for the SEC, consultant to Department of Justice's Trustbusting Robert Houghwout Jackson...
...joined under one top. The result, according to the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue, was not only the biggest circus ever but one of the fanciest conspiracies "against the peace and dignity of the U. S." on record. Last week the circus income tax evasion case, touring one legal phase after another for over five years, pitched its tents in Manhattan as the Government began its prosecution...