Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four days later Homer Martin, President of the United Automobile Workers, invaded New Jersey and made a speech at Newark in answer to Mr. Hoffman. He pointed out that strikes are legal. "What is the difference," he asked "if a man sits down inside or sits down outside?" The only difference he could find was that sitting down inside is easier and safer for the striker. To the argument that sit-down strikes break property laws, he argued back that the right to a good pay check is a property right just as much as the right to own property...
...effect deprived of the use of his property. Nevertheless, a plant cannot be shut from the outside unless a substantial majority of its employes join the strike. A very small minority of employes can generally shut down a plant by a sitdown. If the sit-down should be made legal, the question would still remain whether society would tolerate having its industries shut down at will by any minority that chooses to use the weapon...
...financial cyclone cellar. To a pedigreed list of 10,000 prospects they sent out a booklet in which the bank's former president, Governor Richard Kirman Sr.* presented to people of wealth sound fiscal reasons why they should become Nevada residents. Attorney General Gray Mashburn explained the simple legal steps required. And the booklet emphasized that "Nevada has no radical organization in its entire 110,000 square miles. There is no political movement of even slightly pinkish tinge. . . . The law-makers are cattlemen, miners, lawyers, business and professional men and there hasn't been the slightest whisper...
...this week for the Highest Tribunal, after hearing in one day three mistresses try to prove themselves admirable, handed down the blanket decision that henceforth any woman upon the sudden death by accident of her man shall "have right to damages only if united to the victim by the legal bonds of matrimony...
...socialite onetime Yale football captain, could well understand the Brady estate's problem, for he is counsel and manager of the great Edward Stephen Harkness estate. But village feeling triumphed and last week Mayor Aldrich began conferring with the village counsel as to possible legal means of keeping "Inisfada" out of the hands of the non-taxpaying Jesuifs...