Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taxing is a legal question pure and simple. Anyone has the right to do anything as long as the law does not say it is wrong. I object strenuously to treating income tax evasion as a moral issue. If the Government objects to tax evaders it should change...
...week Government services were being supplied with oil by the Government-owned Petromex, whose employes do not enjoy the legal right to strike. But with about $60,000 a day in oil taxes being nicked from his budget, Labor-loving President Lázaro Cárdenas finally persuaded the strikers to go back to work, let a Federal conciliation board hammer out a settlement...
...acre for the million acres given to the Arapahoes in 1878, with interest at 5% for 60 years minus the expenditures (about $1,600,000) the Government has made for Shoshone schools and roads in excess of treaty requirement. To Lawyer Tunison & associates are expected to go legal fees...
...This legal rivalry has smoldered for months in Washington. To oppose the McCarran-Lea Bill, the Post Office has lately softened its harsh attitude toward the lines, gone out of its way to give them what they asked. Example was permission to United Air Lines last month to fly into Denver (TIME, May 10). To make this new service jibe with the Air Mail Act, Solicitor Karl A. Crowley had to devise a totally new concept-that an airline is a "zone of influence" instead of a geometric line. Last week Post Office men in Washington revealed that they will...
When Joe Strauss offered his plans to bridge the Golden Gate's mile of surging tidal currents, everybody laughed. After the California Legislature authorized a Bridge District with power to build the bridge, it took six years of legal battle before the U. S. Supreme Court permitted it to proceed. The War Department debated a year before giving its permission, fearing that destruction of the bridge during a war would cork the harbor. Shipping interests fought it bitterly and the Government finally imposed a high-tide clearance 100 ft. higher than Brooklyn Bridge's. The PWA refused...