Word: mooted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeal, which came in a telegram yesterday morning from Edward L. Bernays and John R. Moot '43, co-chairmen of the citizens' committee, asked for co-operation in stopping the "extravagant waste of $7 million in Massachusetts taxpayers' money to build totally unnecessary underpasses on Memorial Drive...
...John R. Moot '43, co-chairman of the committee, admitted that the Governor probably has no legal jurisdiction over the MDC and that "he can do no more than ask the MDC to hold...
...Both Moot and Edward L. Bernays, the Committee's other co-chairman, have revealed that sources close to the Governor told them last spring that, if re-elected, Peabody would have actively opposed the underpasses. However the Governor was defeated by Lieutenant Governor Francis X. Bellotti in the September Democratic primary...
...telegram to the Governor, Moot and Bernays appealed to "Your concern that the good name of Massachusetts be preserved throughout the nation." They reiterated charges that the construction of the underpasses was only a first step to the widening of all Memorial Drive and the resulting destruction of the Charles Riverbank as a recreation area...
...Leading judges have been criticizing the law schools on this ground for years," he said. "It's like letting medical students practice on the basis of theory alone. Law school moot trials are merely glorified debates, because they are patterned on the appellate courts, which are not concerned with the gathering of evidence and the marshalling of an argument. A legal internship is what we're after...