Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tariff revision in the form of increased rates for agriculture and industries in which "there had been a substantial slackening of activity and a consequent decrease in employment"; reorganization of the Tariff Commission with higher salaries, a faster system of fact-finding on changes recommended, a "sounder" system for valuation...
...farmer, 70 cents going for transportation, marketing, etc. The fanner gets no more because, ambitious, he grows too much, puts it up for sale. With all farmers doing this, a surplus is created, depressing prices. The farmer markets his goods individually, thus entrenching a sloppy fluctuating marketing system. Congress is now called to remedy this situation, to provide "relief." The remedy as contained in the House farm bill: A new Federal Board with $500,000,000 in credits. Farm producers would join in cooperative associations to which the Federal Board would loan money at 4%. With this money the cooperatives...
...case system abhors abstractions so should those seeking its modification. The first year course in Civil Procedure is an outstanding example of an attempt to impose on materials stubbornly renitent a scheme of presentation foreign to the subject. The difficulties enumerated above are encountered with wearisome incessancy throughout the year. In Property I Professor Edward Warren's casebook is an amazing confession of the hopelessness of the task which it essays. The pages are heavily laden with so-called "notes" by the author and extracts from the texts of Littleton, Coke, Black stone. Fearne, Washburn and others calculated to bring...
...parts of the course. In Civil Procedure various texts on common law pleading. Clark on Code Pleading, Professor Scott's little book, and Professor Morgan's Introduction together with various law review articles constitute the materials with which the men counteract by self-help defective instruction. Already the case system as applied to these courses is in large measure a legal education...
...through the fog alone. To ignore or belittle the problem or discourage its discussion cannot in any event suppress its open agitation much longer. The experience of the men who have to use the casebooks demands a fair and candid re-examination of the rational basis of the case system and its re-evaluation with reference to the separate subjects to which it is applied. Very truly yours, K. M. White...