Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmers as allies to help save it from that misfortune. Since farmers naturally want Christmas presents in their stockings, whether AAA gets their presents from Santa Claus or from highway robbery is a secondary question. Therefore last week farmers and AAA were working hand in glove to discourage legal attacks upon processing taxes...
...tread on some good New Deal toes: 1) To the pain of trust-hating disciples of Felix Frankfurter, Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Dickinson, able young lawyer but no reckless reformer, became Assistant Attorney General, in charge of anti-trust prosecutions to bolster Attorney General Cummings' shaky legal staff. 2) To the suppressed displeasure of Secretary Ickes, Charles West, Presidential contact-man with Congress, was made Undersecretary of the Interior...
...news readers in Germany it was indeed suspicious that Mayor LaGuardia remained adamant last week, after his own legal adviser twice told him that his interpretation of the treaty was wrong, and after the U. S. State Department crossed its fingers with an intimation that no German discrimination against U. S. citizens is "of record'' in its files...
Smart Girl (Paramount). When Kent Taylor rings the doorbell of a big house to serve a legal paper on its owner, the door is opened by Ida Lupino who three minutes later proposes to the process-server. Not impressed by her apparent flippancy, he marries, instead, her sister Kay (Gail Patrick) and struggles valiantly to help both girls through the hard times that follow their bankrupt father's suicide. Miss Lupino goes to work for a German milliner (Joseph Cawthorn) and proceeds to demonstrate that, in spite of her smart talk, she is the one he should have picked...
...Angeles' Thomas M. White, the "Rattlesnake Bandit." John J. Bennett, "New York State's Fighting Attorney General," sounded the war cry against "Commercial Racketeering," while in the penny dreadful manner Editor Lawes himself began a novel about New York City's criminal classes entitled "Legal Larceny...