Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt in Pennsylvania fortnight ago. Chiefly noted as a onetime Assistant Secretary of War (1913-16) and as Charles A. Lindbergh's attorney, Colonel Breckinridge is a thin-lipped, sinewy, 49-year-old member of Kentucky's famed Breckinridge family. To keep fit for his legal and political jobs he flies his own airplane, keeps up the expert fencing which in 1928 got him elected captain of the U. S. Olympic fencing team. Not seriously seeking the Presidency, Colonel Breckinridge last week wished only to rally anti-New Deal sentiment, register a "protest" vote within the party...
...Council meeting was scheduled for 5 o'clock. At 4:45 p. m. Belaten Guetta Wolde Mariam Ayelen, Ethiopia's League delegate, accompanied by his secretary and Swiss legal adviser, arrived at the Palace, went directly to the Council room. In a few minutes in walked Italy's Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Anthony Eden and other members of the Council. Captain Eden gravely presided...
...Passaic begged the Governor of New Jersey for State money to keep the Kasper quadruplets alive. A news photographer paid Father Kasper $750 for permission to photograph the infants. Cried the mayor to the father: "Don't sign anything, even if it's good, until the legal staff of Passaic has looked it over...
Federal law prohibits the exchange of person-to-person radio messages in the course of a public broadcast. A Pittsburgh newshawk confronted Baritone Thomas with this solid legal fact when he sang there last week, asked him what he would do if his filial salutation should be banned from the air by the Federal Communications Commission. John Charles Thomas' reply was unhesitating : "It will be either 'Good Night, Mother,' or 'Goodbye Broadcasting...
...Deal has been written around the character of J. Edward Jones, a Manhattan oil royalty dealer whom the Securities & Exchange Commission has been assiduously trying to put out of business for more than a year. Last month Oil Royalist Jones won from the Supreme Court a legal victory and sweet revenge in the form of a verbal thrashing administered by Justice Sutherland to the SEC and all other New Deal agencies whose zeal might be exceeding their authority (TIME, April...