Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method of administering justice," concludes Bronxville's McDonald, "is in conformity with the definition of the law given by Alfred Rosenberg . . .: 'Law is what the "Aryan" man deems to be right; legal wrong is what he rejects.' " By this arrangement of German Justice, a situation is created which soft-spoken James Grover McDonald feels ought to cause the Great Powers to deal with Germany in a manner "friendly but firm...
...Autocar started to specialize on trucks, now makes models from 2%½ ton to 15½ ton capacity. An Autocar feature was long the under-the-seat motor, now being adopted by other truck makers. One advantage is increased payload per inch of wheelbase, an important factor because of legal limitations on truck lengths. Short trucks are also easier to maneuver in cramped quarters, and Autocars are a favorite with coal dealers. Autocar has paid no dividend on its common stock since 1921, though in the War boom it once paid $10 in one year including a $1 "Red Cross...
...Never Say Die!" In addition to thus ramming the perfidy of Albion down Albion's throat amid well-bred cries of "Hear! Hear!", the astonishing 45-minute address of Sir Samuel branched into a legal demonstration that the broad principles of The Deal, whatever its defects in detail, are identically the same broad principles enunciated by the League of Nations' Committee of Five...
...plight to the attention of President Roosevelt. Promptly, on the third day of the good doctor's stay at Angel Island, the President at a Cabinet meeting told Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau and Perkins to get busy. In two hours the State, Treasury and Labor Departments evolved a legal arrangement whereby Japan's No. 1 Christian would get a seven-month visitor's permit on condition that he be constantly accompanied by a doctor or nurse...
Only last week did Playwright MacArthur's first wife, a Chicago newspaper woman, drop her alienation of affections suit against Actress Hayes. That legal tangle was merely a fraction of the excitement that ebullient Mr. MacArthur has brought into his wife's life since 1928. A great cutup, he goes in for such japes as spreading strange lingerie around the home in his wife's absence to see what she will do upon her return. Irregularities like these have evoked such effusive sympathy for Miss Hayes that her husband once thought of founding a Poor Helen Club...