Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyer of distinction, William L. Ransom brings to the Conference wide knowledge of public utility law and of the course of legal progress and education. Graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1905, he was identified with the Presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, and then took up various duties with the New York Public Service Commission. In 1917 Ransom was Republican and Fusion candidate for the position of District Attorney of New York...
Future debates will have as subjects the following questions, in all of which the Yardlings will take the affirmative: Congress' power to enact minimum wage and maximum hours legislation for industry, the President's proposed judiciary reform measures, and the sitdown strike as a legal weapon of labor...
Free again and having his day in court, Plaintiff Parker began to develop a line of legal reasoning in the libel case which was exquisitely embarrassing to the Tribune. According to Parker, the conviction of Leo Brothers for the murder of the Tribune's crook-reporter Jake Lingle (who saved up a fortune of $150,000 on a news-hawk's pay) was a frame-up. True it was that a member of the Tribune's law firm was made a special assistant state's attorney to help build the case against Brothers-and this appointment...
...this ruling was SEC's Chairman James McCauley Landis. In a long press conference he again called on the holding companies to set foot in the paths of peace, forsake the "Liberty League lawyers." including John W. Davis, "who believe they can thwart national political thought by obtuse legal advice." Last week not one but two of the biggest utility holding companies in the U. S.- North American Co. with assets of $891,000,000, American Water Works & Electric Co. with $434,000,000-notified their stockholders that it would be in their best interests to withdraw all litigation...
...finance at the Harvard Business School and associate professor of corporation law at Columbia. With the inception of the New Deal he served in various capacities, notably as special counsel to the RFO and financial adviser to the American Embassy in Cuba. Since 1934 he has directed the legal affairs of New York City as City Chamberlain in Mayor LaGuardia's Fusion administration. His address at the plenary session on Saturday will be the last formal speech of the Conference