Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GOIN' HOME-Colored soldiers and white officers embroiled against each other in the last moments of the late War (TIME, Sept...
...WAR SONG...
With all their disadvantages, the old panaceas for more courts, more Supreme Court justices, divisional sittings, have been revived since the Great War. Failing a Lord Chancellor (equivalent to a Ministry of Justice), leadership for reform is unofficial, and the less effective. Constant reform, however, is inevitable: "Law and courts are instruments of adjustment...
Authors Frankfurter and Landis analyze the political, social and economic forces that have produced changes in the federal judicial system. With the Civil War, the triumph of nationalism over "states' rights" enlarged the jurisdiction of the federal courts, modified and expanded their structure. Tremendous increase in industry so flooded their dockets that a separate court was created for customs appeals, and another for regulation of railways and other great national utilities. Involved in politics, this latter (a Commerce Court not to be confused with the Interstate Commerce Commission) was short-lived...
...School since 1914, he lectures brilliantly on such things as public utilities and federal jurisdiction. His remarkable memory for the very page number of obscure cases has confounded many a show-off law student. He works his men hard, regales them with none of his reputed radicalism. During the War he was able assistant successively to the War and Labor Departments. His erudite writings concern the Interstate Commerce Act, Wages, Labor, Criminal Justice. Conspicuous champion of Sacco and Vanzetti, his close study of the case was reflected in newspaper, magazine, and book form. Mrs. Frankfurter is co-editing the dead...