Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declined to let any technicality stand in the way of their right to sue, declaring: "We should not seek to find means of avoiding ruling on a constitutional question." The second question, he declared, was whether Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals (whence the debated power line leads) was legally constructed. Both because it was built under Wartime laws to provide power for making explosives and because it was designed to improve navigation, the Federal Government had been entitled to construct it. Therefore the dam was not illegal. Third question was whether the Government had the right to sell power created...
...responsible for the whole deal," the elderly lowan rose to declare. "Everybody who put money into it will get it back at the legal rate of interest, compound interest and a bonus. . . . When it is settled not even the bars of the penitentiary will hold me, for the powers-that-be recognize no bars. I can't tell who they are. That would be high treason...
...corporation. One corporate-man is George Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago. In order to carry on the temporal affairs of his busy diocese this Prince of the Roman Catholic Church is "incorporated by law in order to give him legal capacities and advantages not possessed by natural persons." He is technically known as a "corporation sole," which means that he is the entire corporation with title to diocesan properties...
...democratic Roseland Dance Hall. He whisked her off to Texas, married her. By this time Mr. Graustein's company was called International Paper & Power, and it was more a power company than paper company. Last week, having sloughed off most of its power business by a legal stratagem, International was once more a paper company. And Mr. Graustein, now 50, handed in his resignation. It was accepted...
Without debate, without dissent the Senate last week confirmed six appointments to the new Federal Reserve Board submitted by President Roosevelt. The seventh appointee is yet to be chosen. Three days later the old Board, set up by Woodrow Wilson 22 years ago, passed out of legal existence. Though their terms had not expired, four members of the old Board were retired without pensions. At 67 John Jacob Thomas, a Roosevelt appointee, returns to his farm and his law practice in Nebraska. George Roosa James, 69, wise and crotchety, goes back to Memphis to train his son in the wholesale...