Word: marden
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...There is a legal explosion!" With these words, courtly Orison Swett Marden, 60, newly elected president of the American Bar Association, summed up a dominant theme of the A.B.A.'s annual meeting held last week in Montreal. Such Supreme Court decisions as Gideon, Escobedo and Miranda have sharply expanded the U.S. right to counsel, requiring the services of many more lawyers and a deep change in the attitude of many A.B.A. members...
...Marden's view, it will all be to the good. Himself a senior partner in White & Case, a prestigious Wall Street firm, Marden has long been a leader of the legal-aid movement. The poor, he thinks, "are more apt to become good citizens, more apt to observe the law, and to regard the law as their friend rather than their enemy," once they discover that "the law protects them to the same extent that it protects the wealthiest person in the land...
...house of delegates further authorized a new A.B.A. Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, which Marden hailed as a means of encouraging public understanding that rights and duties go hand in hand. "It will seek to nurture a sense of responsibility on the part of lawyers in the recognition and enforcement of these rights and responsibilities," said Marden. "When legal rights are challenged or infringed, as Justice Jackson once observed, they are worth 'just what some lawyer makes them worth...
...American Bar Association, mindful that the medical profession won little esteem by its high-powered resistance to medicare, has endorsed the project and pledged full cooperation. "In helping to carry out a program dedicated to the principle of equal justice for all," says A.B.A. President-elect Orison S. Marden, "we have nothing to lose and much to gain...
...Marden meanwhile walked nine batters in seven innings while his teammates committed an incredible total of 12 errors behind him. John Scott went all the way for the Crimson, pitching a four-hitter and striking...