Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brewster sat down directly across the table from Chairman O'Connor and, with many a nervous grimace, proceeded to tell his story. In his pursuit of the Quoddy millions, said he, he had been vastly aided by Mr. Corcoran, government agent delegated to smooth the dam's legal pathway. In return he had listened sympathetically to Mr. Corcoran's earnest pleas for his support of the Public Utility Bill. But the bill was so drastic, so complex, that he had been unable to make up his mind until Mr. Corcoran threatened him just before the vote...
Meantime Messrs. Corcoran and Brewster were working hand in glove for Passamaquoddy. Two fears beset legal Agent Corcoran, he explained. One was that the Power interests, through their Republican allies, might bring nuisance suits to check construction after the dam was started. The other was that, once completed, the dam would become another Muscle Shoals which the Federal Government would lack power to operate. Therefore he felt obliged to postpone construction until Maine's Legislature should create a State Power Authority to build and operate the dam in the Federal Government's behalf. Only on Representative Brewster...
...Legal authorization for acts that Federal Judge W'illiam Irwin ("Unconstitutional") Grubb of Alabama had declared illegal under the original...
Presbyterian Tribune: "If the producers are really interested in the good will of the church press, it would be to their advantage to forgive this legal debt...
Commissioner Robert E. Healy is a Vermonter and nominally a Republican but long service as counsel to the Federal Trade Commission's utility investigation gave him rather a jaundiced opinion of Big Business. His specialty is the legal division. Commissioner George C. Mathews is also a nominal Republican. President Roosevelt picked him for his record on Wisconsin's liberal public service body to serve on the Federal Trade Commission...