Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee as a whole. With its new $100,000 appropriation in hand, the committee hired Lawyer Rhea Whitley, 35, to head its investigating staff. Mr. Whitley, stocky and curly-haired, was in FBI for ten years (1927-37), with a final "nice, easy, restful" hitch in Manhattan. He studied law at Washington & Lee, married a Sweet Briar girl. Un-Americans from Jonesboro, Ark. might get a break from him. He was born there...
...seize their employer's plant. ... To justify such conduct [as NLRB had justified it] because of the existence of a labor dispute or of an unfair labor practice would be to put a premium on resort to force instead of legal remedies and to subvert the principles of law and order which lie at the foundations of society. As [Fansteel's] unfair labor practices afforded no excuse for the seizure and holding of its buildings, [Fansteel] had its normal rights of redress. Those rights, in their most obvious scope, included the right to discharge the wrongdoers...
...move all his belongings out of the house and padlock the doors, surprised next to see smoke curling out of the building. Firemen came in time to save the framework but Edward Murphy's cottage was as good as destroyed. When police arrested him for violating the arson law, he was indignant. The nearest house was 100 feet from his. Having no insurance, he was perpetrating no fraud. "A man has as much right to burn his home down as he has to tear it down," said Edward Frances Murphy. His reason for so doing: he hated his neighbors...
...saying, last week cowboyish Governor Roy E. Ayers endeared himself to Montana's rural and Roman Catholic voters-but not to big-city lawyers, dude ranchers, hotelmen-by unexpectedly vetoing a 30-day-residence divorce law passed the week prior by his legislature (TIME...
...this connection it is interesting that, according to the committee's report, a surprising number of Law School men are unwilling to help organize a similar cooperative. Probably there are several explanations, principally that the Andover scheme had not proved successful when the report was distributed, and secondarily because of what Life magazine so colorfully termed their "fierce" scholarship. Also, there was doubtless some feeling that if nothing were done from below, a wind-fall would suddenly descend from above, and "authorities" would place a dining hall in their laps...