Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walk off with the umbrella. In eight years, on a union salary of $35 per week, he saved $350,000. "It was with great thrift," he has explained. As early as 1915 "Umbrella Mike" was indicted for a racketeering conspiracy in restraint of trade, jailed after a five-year legal battle. One item of evidence showed that he had extorted $20,000 from Chicago Telephone Co. for permission to erect a building without strikes. After two months of his one-year sentence President Wilson pardoned him, despite a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion that the evidence...
...Washington and this Administration out of power. "The Administration asked Labor to help it repel this attack, and Labor helped the President to repel the economic royalists. The same economic royalists now have their fangs in Labor, and Labor expects the Administration to support the auto workers in every legal way in their fight. "Labor is on the march in this country toward those better things .and better days so eloquently described from time to time by the President of the United States." The words were hardly off Mr. Lewis' mimeograph when it appeared that he had made...
...been allowed to conduct his prosecution in 1935; Murray Irwin Gurfein, 30, brainy onetime Editor of Harvard's Law Review; Barent Ten Eyck, 34 only gentile of the lot, a suave, bald Princetonian socialite, translator of two Scandinavian novels. Fifteen men and one woman rounded out the Dewey legal staff. The woman, Mrs. Eunice Hunton Carter, a young Negro lawyer and social worker schooled by Smith and Fordham and married to a Harlem dentist, was to prove one of his ablest trackers of prostitution and policy racketeers. Ten crack accountants were picked to search racketeers' bank records...
Pharmacopoeia Revision Committee (17 doctors, 33 pharmacists), contains the legal specifications for preparing and testing 568 pure drugs. The National Formulary, published by the American Pharmaceutical Association, is a compendium of 500 popular formulas. The American Pharmaceutical Recipe Book, also published by the American Pharmaceutical Association, is a collection of 2,000 formulas taken from pharmacopoeias all over the world, chemical formulas and prescriptions for dental and cosmetic preparations, poisons and antidotes. New & Nonofficial Remedies, published by the American Medical Association, describes new drugs which A. M. A. authorities approve. Revised editions of these four important fat volumes, which every...
...then only one room in the War Department. Not until 1870 was there a Department of Justice, although duties wished on the Attorney General had been tremendous. Jealousies arising from Congressional dislike of reorganization delayed for a half century the creation of a unified department to handle U. S. legal affairs. Turnover in the office of Attorney General has been rapid. There have been more Attorneys General (54) than Secretaries in each of the State, Treasury and Post Office Departments. Only in the War Department have changes been more numerous (56). Some Attorneys General were distinguished, many were not. Some...