Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cracked Scripps-Howard's Washington Columnist Raymond Clapper: "Why doesn't the Black Committee seize the telegrams of prominent Democrats who have been selling their influence with the Administration for fat legal fees? If we are going in for Nazi methods, there is no use being squeamish about...
Above courts of law was exactly where Senator Black promptly declared himself to be. Securing postponement until this week of a hearing on making the Strawn injunction permanent, he arranged for a legal representative of his Committee to appear beside Western Union as "a friend of the court." On the Senate floor he cried: "In my judgment, if any judge ever issued an injunction to prevent the delivery of papers summoned by this body, the Congress should immediately enact legislation taking away that jurisdiction from the courts, for Congress creates the jurisdiction of those courts. If I had any idea...
...Democratic majority accused Republican Judge Ritter: He granted an exorbitant fee of $75,000 to his onetime Partner Albert L. Rankin as receiver of Whitehall, a Palm Beach hotel, and accepted $4,500 from Rankin in return; he collected $7,500 through other receiverships; he took a $2,000 legal fee while on the bench; he accepted free food, lodging and valet service at the bankrupt hotel of which his sister-in-law was made manager...
Nonetheless a U. S. doctor is seldom prosecuted for performing a "criminal operation." He can generally claim that he did it to preserve the life or health of the woman, a legal obligation of his profession. After a search of Federal and state laws, Dr. Taussig assured doctors that their colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons: "1) very recent pregnancy; 2) general debility with loss of weight; 3) after suppurative appendicitis that has produced extensive adhesions; 4) after a previous Caesarean operation; 5) to prevent increasing prolapse of the pelvic...
...problem. She is to have a baby. Unhappily, the baby's illegitimate father is already married to a childless invalid. The baby's illegitimate grandfather rationally proposes that the little newcomer be smuggled into his son's home, passed off as his son's legal heir...