Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Dictator is the most prominent member of the Moscow International devoted to fomenting the World Revolution, it is doubtful in a strictly legal sense whether Comrade Stalin has a right to permit himself to stay in Russia under the pledges given Washington, but neither the Dictator nor the President is a legal stickler. What is certain is that no great Red could, under the treaty pledges Moscow has given, stay abroad and foment Revolution if he were not officially an outcast from Russia...
Sitting as judicial bench for the mock trial on the legal rights of taxpayers wishing to recover processing and floor taxes under the A.A.A., the question which will be debated at eight o'clock tonight in the Ames Competition at the Law School, will be the Honorable John E. Allen, Chief Justice of New Hampshire; the Honorable Thomas W. Swan, Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second District, sitting in New York City; and the Honorable Charles H. Moorman, Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting in Louisville, Kentucky...
...stately chambers of the New York Bar Association to elect temporary local Guild officers. Looking down from their gilt frames, first U. S. Chief Justice John Jay and 19 past presidents of the Bar Association beheld a scene of fine parliamentary confusion, as scores of pent-up legal spirits strug gled to express themselves. In a two-hour session, highlighted by a plea "to call in a few lawyers" to restore order, Paul Kern, Manhattan Civil Service Commissioner, was elected president, two steering committees were appointed to act until the national convention...
Numerous textile concerns have dodged the law by splitting bids into lots of less than $10,000, a method suggested for motor makers. Last week, however, International Harvester and Reo Motor were awarded truck contracts after the Labor Department clarified some knotty legal points. One question raised by Harvester was whether the hours provisions applied to its other operations such as farm machinery or only to its truck plants. The Labor Department held that only the particular plant making Government goods was affected. In the case of the copper companies all mine operations might be included, which was presumably...
...hung about everything connected with the $400,000,000 holding company and its pyramiding promoter, Harley Lyman Clarke. Since last autumn, when Promoter Clarke was edged out of the U. P. & L. presidency, the charges and counter-charges have mounted to high-tension voltage. Last week came the first legal payoff in the whole business. In Chicago, Federal Judge William Henry Holly approved a voluntary petition from the company for a 77B reorganization, issued a restraining order against other suits against...