Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither the law of the country nor the law of his religion would forbid a second wife. In Albania, the signing of the marriage contract by the bride's father and by the groom, makes a marriage. It is legal and binding. There is, however, another law relating to marriages. The bride cannot leave her father's house, no matter how legally she may be married, until her husband comes for her, with appropriate ceremony symbolizing marriage by capture. It is known as "taking" the bride. If he never comes she can do nothing about it. When Achmet...
...Legally Mr. Sloan has an air-tight case. He does not need a General Motors corporation lawyer to prove that, even to the most enthusiastic sympathizer with labor. The workers have no lawful right to "sit down" in his factories without his permission. Mr. Sloan's trouble is that he and his business associates fail to realize that strict legal tenets no longer have the hold on public opinion that they had years ago. Industrialists can no longer be as reposeful and uncompromising as they were in the "golden age". Their motto: "My property is my property," is as dead...
Standing in their way is the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits lending to governments in default of their obligations, but unfortunately there may be legal methods to escape it. The only honest way for Europe to touch our financial reserves again is to climb out of the gutter of default...
Escheat. In the contest for Henrietta Garrett's $20,000,000 estate is the State of Pennsylvania, which asserts there are no legal heirs, therefore the fortune must escheat, i.e., revert to the State under intestate laws. Also plugging for the money is Administrator Starr, whose claim that Mrs. Garrett's phrase "Give you" meant he should get all left after paying out $62,500 will be presented in court by former U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper, a Philadelphia lawyer. Mr. Starr has already received some Garrett snuff money. His brother, the late Isaac Starr, was named...
Observed in proper legal form in thousands of U. S. banks last week was that hallowed financial institution, "bank meeting week." The turnout was small. For the first time in eight years the bankers faced their stockholders with the comforting assurance that their greetings would not be returned with loud boos and cat calls. Indeed, many a banker had the long-forgotten pleasure of receiving a rising vote of confidence and appreciation. In serene sessions throughout the land the stockholders nodded approval to 1936 reports, listened respectfully to what the bankers had to say. Operating profits were up a little...