Word: legal
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...gentlemen's agreement" whereby the British will repay in kind after the war. The British were now being told to go ahead, order all they need up to $3,000,000,000 worth, without worrying over their ability to pay or U. S. ability to deliver. Although legal means of carrying out this plan appeared still to be lacking, it was virtually a moral commitment made in advance...
Clipped by this decision were the wings of more than two score legal eagles, for 41 State Attorney Generals had filed briefs on the company side. And the Court set up a new definition of navigability, to wit: 1) any stream navigable by boats drawing two feet or more is "navigable"; 2) any stream that can be improved into navigability by expenditure of any "reasonable" amount of money is "navigable." The court further held that the authority of the Government over any navigable stream "is as broad as the needs of commerce"-a definition which broadened the commerce clause...
...study law at the University of Pennsylvania. He lived in a big house in the old part of town on the Main Line, had a law practice of sinecures tossed his way by friendly bankers and fellow Academy and Penn men. He founded the Juristic Society, an exclusive little legal and social group. Religious, he became a deacon and trustee of Germantown's Second Presbyterian Church...
...reef-dodging diplomat, Bishop Marahrens is one of the three pre-Hitler Protestant bishops who has held on to his post, typifies an attitude of something-less-than-martyrdom. Under him, middle-of-the-road Protestantism's steady declaration has been: "Our bishop and council remain the legal authority of our church. . . . The Lord of the Christian Church is Christ, not Hitler...
Readers who do not yet agree with Dickens' Mr. Bumble that "the law is a ass, a idiot" can turn to The Strangest Cases on Record by Lawyer John Allison Duncan of Cleveland. His book is a random docket of legal madness. Hear...