Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision on his application for a permanent injunction within ten days. Justice Adkins gave the coal man a temporary injunction restraining his company from complying voluntarily with the code. President Carter wanted that because his stockholders, who are also members of his family, wanted to sign up without any legal quibbling...
...Chinese could still hoard all the gold they pleased, but Dr. Kung made it treason for Chinese to hold silver which he ordered into the Government's banks. To a nation that has never had any great confidence in paper, the Chinese Government decreed that its paper is legal tender and not redeemable in either silver or gold...
...rich man in the U. S. is better equipped to bark up the tax tree than Publisher Hearst. Within 24 hours he had released a statement amplifying his tax grievances to the Associated Press, in which Mr. Hearst owns 19 memberships. "New York," he explained, "is my legal and voting residence, and has been for over 36 years. I simply cannot afford to be a resident of California as well as New York. . . . Perhaps I am honored by special attention in the taxation program of the Federal Government on account of my political attitude, but I do not think...
...Lord Macaulay as as approving such a move. "The words I am going to quote do not come together in context," confessed the Prime Minister putting together snatches of Macaulay and quoting him as having written: "A wise Minister will always dissolve a year before the end of the legal term...
From this Authority. Mr. Baldwin proceeded to that other British shibboleth, Precedent. "In the half century before [Macaulay] wrote, nearly every Parliament was brought to an end a year before the legal limit." he cried. "So [too] when you come to the brave days of Disraeli and Gladstone...