Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Similarly the action of the Federal Postmasters in two separate cities of Ohio, acting as they say under instructions from Washington, in refusing to accept for delivery perfectly legal packages is also what one would expect. "Remember your friends" is a good political motto. At Niles the evidence shows the postmaster there is going so far to preserve the sanctity of the mails as to show all packages addressed to Republic Mills to C.I.O. organizers for final approval. This is really remembering your friends in a way they are not likely to forget...
...large income from securities which he hopes to sell at big profit, took out Canadian citizenship papers and transferred his securities to four corporations in the Bahamas in order to escape the income and capital gains tax. Some of such schemes were illegal, some might be technically legal. All were immoral. Franklin Roosevelt was going to bring them to the attention of Congress...
...Said Youngstown: "The signed agreement demanded of us could not be enforced by us because it would be a one-sided instrument whereunder the employer alone would possess legal responsibility. ... The wage rates requested have been and are in effect. The company's vacation plan is more liberal to the employes than the one proposed by the C. I. 0. The hours of work requested have been and are in effect. The company has been, now is and will continue to be willing to meet and negotiate with representatives chosen by its employes for all purposes of collective bargaining...
...Employes of the Bureau of Customs pondered a problem last week that had never confronted them before. It had to do with Chinese ears. Was it legal to import them from China? Were they dutiable? How should they be shipped? If the ears that were troubling the Bureau were to be transported with the customary Chinese between each pair, the problem might have been passed on to the Immigration Service. As it was, the ears were to be imported unattached. After thumbing many documents and consulting the Public Health Service and the Post Office Department, the Customs Bureau decided that...
...generations the English common-law notion that a husband & wife are one legal entity has colored U. S. law. Last week New York State sliced this doctrine, made it law effective Sept. 1 that "a married woman has a right of action against her husband for his wrongful or tortuous acts resulting to her in any personal injury . . . or resulting in injury to her property, as if they were unmarried, and she is liable to her husband for her wrongful or tortuous acts...