Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long-nosed Hamper Sibley, the Chamber's retiring president, got a little closer to the point. "It is obvious," he said, "that the broad question of employer-employe relationship is far from settled. It cannot be settled by force. It cannot be settled by attempting to throw legal safeguards around the rights of one of the groups concerned, but sharply limiting the rights of other groups. . . . Bargaining cannot be one-sided...
...tables, the Chamber-men to whom he had refused for the third successive year to send any greeting throbbed with approval as President B. C. Heacock of Caterpillar Tractor Co. told how he settled a sit-down by CIO "brigands." With comfort they listened to a running fire of legal advice on the Wagner Act by John D. Black, member of the Chicago law firm of Silas Hardy Strawn, potent onetime president of the Chamber. Might they fire sit-downers? someone asked. Replied Lawyer Black, eyes flashing...
...conservative Harvard resentment toward some of the recent utterances of the Dean-designate, the question "Is Landis really the man?" needs a bit of public airing. For to many who were profoundly pleased at the selection of Mr. Landis a few months ago, on the basis of his brilliant legal thinking and his diplomatic handling of the S.E.C., it comes as distinct shock that the new Dean of the Law School has shown doubts about the illegality of the sit-down strike and has come out in favor of the Supreme Court change...
...opposition stands on much firmer ground when it comes out to attack Mr. Landis's "legal temperament". For it is an inescapable fact that all of the Dean's legal training has been in the theoretical side of the law or in administration. As a lawyer in the practical sense, or at least the sense that has been understood for generations, he has had little experience, no matter how high he may rank in the development and teaching of legal thought. Thus, in all fairness to the man and to the University to which he is to give his services...
...answer to the question of Mr. Landis's fitness cannot be fairly determined in advance, and Harvard, having made the selection, certainly owes it to its self to go through with it. But the outburst of strong and heartfelt opposition that has been shaking the Harvard legal world in the past few weeks should not go unheeded by the Dean. It is a sign for him to stop barnstorming about the country like a "Congressional rabble-rouser" issuing statements on strikes and the Supreme Court. It is time for the Dean to begin to think about the administrative problems that...