Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Penalty for conviction on this rare charge is one to twelve months in jail, $100 to $1,000 fine. In Los Angeles, Dr. Townsend, not averse to publicity-making martyrdom, announced that he would go to jail before paying a fine. In Washington, legal authorities announced that he would probably have no choice, since a jail sentence would almost certainly accompany his conviction...
...Dominions. Yet London editors go sleepless, reporters exhaust themselves and the Cabinet is reported split three ways within itself as King Edward at his snuggery maintains a highly mobile position, ready for instant action. Not only articles of abdication but an entire sheaf of other solutions, drafted in legal form by the King's personal Attorney General Walter Turner Monckton, lie ready to the royal hand. The Captain of the King's Flight, famed "Mouse" Fielden, is under orders to keep His Majesty's private plane tuned day & night, ready for instant takeoff. The pitch...
...British legal authority affirmed up to this week that it was necessary, several opined that it was not, and there was no question whatever that at the very least His Majesty can postpone this largely religious piece of pageantry...
...lodge in the hands of men who wish to do and act has moved strangely into the hands of men who had no vision but that of the past, and of men whose political hatred for the direction of American life made them believe that through some abracadabra of legal learning they could turn it backward. ... In this contest of power between a handful of men and a Nation, no longer lethargic but vocal and tense, there can be no question as to the final outcome...
...endowment for journalistic purposes, the Wisconsin Supreme Court finds, is not per se to be lumped in the same category as gifts to chorus boys or pipe dreams. One legal obstruction is thus brushed away; others, complicated by taxation, remain tightly snarled...