Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subtler and more intense. The Republican Actionist Party of impeached President Gómez, who spent the winter attending exhibition baseball games with ostentatious humility, suddenly spurted with a violent manifesto characterizing Acting-President Laredo Bru as "a decorative figure and a phantom, imprisoned in the palace as a legal fiction," and demanding that the Army stay clear of the elections for the Constituent Assembly. Grizzled, conservative old General Mario Menocal, vice president and smarting under his finessing by Republican Gómez in last year's Batistafied election, finished grinding sugar at his central (mill) in Camag...
...adjustment? Not according to Mr. Collins: "We've gone beyond the maneuver stage long ago. There is no remedy in sight in Pennsylvania. Our sentimental impulses are not toward moving. But we are faced with facts, not sentiments. We are studying the question from all angles, costs, legal and financial complications. When we have completed these studies we will make our decision and stick...
...Magazines. Supposedly the Hearst enterprises are being put through a stiff course of corporate simplification. When the proposed financing is completed all Hearst magazines will be lumped in one package, Hearst Magazines Inc. What may look like simplicity to Mr. Hearst and his chief legal lieutenant, John Francis Neylan, would still look complex to the layman. But in the case of Hearst Magazines one thing is crystal clear: Mr. Hearst needs cash...
...idea of having them taken away seemed even more obnoxious. Until last week none had been withdrawn. Then Chairman Leo T. Crowley of FDIC announced that North Bergen (N. J.) Trust Co. would lose its plaque May 1. Reasons: operating with impaired capital, lending in excess of the legal limit, unwarranted concentration of loans, extension of credit to people and companies in which the bank's principal stockholders were interested. "It was also found," said FDIC, "that the management of the bank by its principal stockholders constituted a hazard to its depositors...
...alteration of empty rooms in a wing of the legal building has been voted upon by the faculty in adopting the report of the curriculum committee. There was no immediate prospect of funds sufficient for painting and furnishing the proposed common rooms, said Morgan, although graduates had expressed their enthusiasm for the project...