Word: lasky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another feature of the book, Harold J. Laski, author and professor of Economics at London University, wrote a biographical sketch also lauding the prominent judge...
...discussing Frankfurter's policies, Laski stated, "By the general public, Mr. Justice Frankfurter is regarded as likely to be a radical influence on the Supreme Court. It is perhaps permissible to suggest that this is a wrong approach to his philosophy of the judicial function. His effort has always been to persuade the Supreme Court to the realization that it is the road to creativeness as well as an obstacle to particular types of experiment. He has sought, like the two great predecessors in whose place he now sits, to warn the Court against becoming the third, and final chamber...
...fall under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House, will be ready for distribution next Friday or Saturday. Features of the volume will be ready for distribution next Friday or Saturday. Features of the volume will be a tribute in Frankfurter by the President, a biography by Harold J. Laski of the London School of Economics, and a discussion of "Frankfurter the Teacher" by Henry M. Hart. professor of Law at Harvard...
Among protagonists of various versions of this plan have been Clarence K. Streit (Union Now) and radical Economist Harold J. Laski, who proposed a union roughly like America under the Articles of Confederation.* Last week the chorus grew. Speaking at an audience with the Haitian Minister to the Vatican, Pope Pius XII urged formation of "a stable and fruitful international organization...
When Professor Laski declared that "This is a revolutionary cpoch" in his lectures on political philosophy last week, he struck a note that is being echoed by political observers all over the world. "Democracy is on trial"; "This century will see a struggle for power between Fascism and Communism," and other such cries are heard on all sides. Those who do not predict a revolution at least admit that the growing complexity of governmental and economic problems have come near swamping the mind of man in his attempt to seek a solution for the problems of politics...