Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unhappy (for this newspaper) returns of the next day showed that, while the town had given Landon 32 votes and Roosevelt 12 in the straw, which roughly tallied with the town's professed political inclination, the legal vote on the dawn of election morning showed 26 votes for Landon, 19 for Roosevelt...
Thomas H. Eliot '28, legal adviser of the Social Security Board, will explain the purpose and actions of the Board at Dunster House Monday evening. It is expected that he will also defend the Social Security...
...Court, 2) the New Deal. It was John Hessin Clarke, now 79, still very much of his own opinion. Said he : "I can't bring myself to regard seriously the action of declaring a few Acts unconstitutional. The Dred Scott decision was reversed by the Civil War; the legal tender decision was reversed by the Court itself, and the income tax was declared unconstitutional in a five-to-four decision which was reversed by the people in an amendment to the Constitution. But the Court survives in full health and strength...
Nebraska's End Paul Amen, when his teammate Gus Peters fumbled a Missouri pass he had intercepted a moment before, put out his hands and caught the ball. Officials ruled that this freak recovery and the touchdown that resulted were legal. Two more touchdowns gave Nebraska its third straight conference victory of the season...
...effort of the King to suppress knowledge of his regard for Mrs. Simpson. The true explanation is that the British press is forbidden by a recently enacted law to make a public spectacle out of any divorce case. It may print only the bare facts of the legal proceedings...