Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High ranking Law School students will hand out free legal advice to residents of Boston's North End, starting tomorrow...
...Commissioner Began to lay down his own concept of reformatory work to Dr. Van Waters. He sent her a number of directives that severely cut into her rehabilitation program. Dwyer complained that new inmates shouldn't be told they are "students" when they enter. That was falsifying their legal status, he said. According to the McDowell Dwyer concept, inmates were prisoners, and must be treated accordingly. That meant no special treatment of special cases (which to Dwyer looked like favoritism) and no liberal graduation of inmates back into society (which looked like dangerous laxity regarding "hardened criminals"). Indenturing, movies, trips...
...editor, Richard Campbell, 25, and his wife Florence Margaret to act as guinea pigs. Signing himself "C. P. Ress, atty.," Hammer drew up a divorce petition for the happily married Campbells. He stamped the application with a notary's stamp, paid the $11 filing fee and waited the legal six weeks. Then he slipped the form into a stack of similar papers in the divorce court...
Flaxy Martin (Warner) is a chain reaction of horror and violence. A gullible young lawyer (Zachary Scott) is in love with a double-crossing blonde (Virginia Mayo). He imagines that she is going to help him break away from his job as legal chore boy for a gang of hoodlums; instead, she helps frame him for murder. When he manages to escape from the guard who is carting him off to prison, the gang's trigger man catches up with him. This leads to the most gruesome of the movie's assortment of gruesome scenes: Scott...
...principle, in essence, was that the King's will was the will of God. A sample result: Henry's legal vengeance on St. Thomas of Canterbury, who had been martyred nearly 400 years before by courtiers of Henry II for upholding a different principle (the authority of Church against King). "He was not content with plundering [Canterbury's] shrine and conveying its wealth in 26 wagons to London, but he burnt the bones of the saint, mingled the ashes with earth, and dissipated them from the mouth of a cannon...