Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blum and Sarraut together met the delegations of strikers and employers. Though his only legal standing was that of a deputy, M. Blum persuaded the employers to back down, give the workers a 10% raise, an annual week's vacation with pay, no more overtime. Of 70,000 strikers in firms busy on Government armament contracts, 60,000 this week went back to work. Delighted union officials threatened to shut down a new batch of factories...
...moment of a courtroom scene which sets an all-time high for legal realism on the screen arrives when the newsreel is projected with stopped action until most of those suspected are convicted. Now the brothers lose their nerve, shocked by the hate blazing in Joe. Even Katharine, who has just found he is alive, leaves him when he refuses her appeal to save the men he has condemned for his own murder. The judge is about to pronounce sentence when what is left of Joe's conscience drives him into court to undo his own reflection...
...specific problem in slum clearance, certainly not unlikely to confront a planner, almost inevitably becomes involved in the question of the economic practicality of such a project as well as in the difficulties of evaluating sociological, legal, medical, and engineering problems. To train men to fill positions demanding such decisions requires more than a course or two in laying out side streets and grass plots...
...Enough orders were placed to keep his newly-employed workmen busy for five months. Governor Fitzgerald wired congratulations. Beamed Mayor William Timmers: "If it weren't for the fact that hundreds of buyers have come thousands of miles to do business here, I would declare the day a legal holi...
...familiar escapades of a young man's first bender: Gary, dressed in alcoholic simplicity, feeds doughnuts to appreciative horses. Then there is Gary's irrepressible exuberence; he jumps on hurtling fire engines, and wields his homicidal right whenever he is sufficiently annoyed. There is a travesty on the legal profession, and the lawyers, choice victims ever since Plato's time, take another merry trouncing. There is a mirthful experiment in indoor reverberation and a comical discourse on abnormal psychology, debunking the almost proverbial specialist from Vienna. And, as a final endearing gesture, Mr. Cooper takes a crack at the money...