Word: caseless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning to hear about Paul Douglas. Along with an unknown "caseless" Chicago lawyer named Harold Ickes, he launched the first protest campaign against the shabby stock manipulations of Utilitycoon Samuel Insull. Governor Franklin Roosevelt borrowed Douglas to work on New York State unemployment problems; so did Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot. Douglas drafted old-age pension and unemployment-insurance laws for Illinois, worked out the state utilities regulation act. He was a chairman of the board of arbiters for the newspaper industry, made such even-handed rulings that only two of his 40 decisions were ever challenged. He appeared...
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