Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to condemn the Sit-Down strike," boomed Idaho's venerable William E. Borah, "until I know all the facts and factors which enter into the question, both legal, moral and economic...
...Manhattan last week, while A. & P.'s General Counsel Caruthers Ewing paced the floor of the hearing room for three impatient hours, waiting to lay the legal foundation of a constitutional test, the Federal Trade Commission tried to find out why A. & P. thought there was any difference between asking the old 4% brokerage allowance and insisting on a 4% discount. "Perhaps it's a fine distinction," explained A. & P.'s Charles W. Parr, "but it is an important...
Loring P. Jordan, Jr. 2L, a graduate of Dartmouth College, has been chosen the next president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, it was announced today. He succeeds John E. Rogerson, 3L, who was the first president after the bureau reopened last spring...
...unanimously, the model from which it was drawn-the Railway Labor Act passed in 1926 and amended in 1934. Like the Wagner Act, it compels collective bargaining, empowers a majority of employers to elect their sole bargaining agency, provides machinery for mediation and adjustment. Accepted by most railroaders without legal quibble, it has helped make the railway industry a national model of pacific labor relations. But the same reason that it has rarely been challenged in court-the fact that railways are indisputably engaged in interstate commerce and hence subject to Congressional regulation-kept Supreme Court endorsement of it from...
...Plummer-Schrepel 3.2% beer bill the new prohibition law of Kansas. Democratic Governor Walter A. Huxman had already announced that he would sign any prohibition bill providing a reasonable definition of "intoxicating" beverages. Thus, last week, a squiggle of his pen made two Drys the unwilling fathers of legal beer in Kansas...