Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only persons to worry, however, about legal guilt were four Brooklyn poulterers, Joseph, Martin, Alex & Aaron Schechter. Were they guilty of violating the law of the land because, contrary to the Poultry Code, they had allowed their customers to pick what chickens they bought, instead of making customers take chickens by the coop, good and bad alike? Were they guilty because, also contrary to code, they had sold an allegedly sick chicken? Guilty for not paying their employes code wages, not working them code hours? For not making proper code reports? For conspiring to do these things? A Federal Circuit...
Other points brought up by the questionnaire are: the incorporation of subjects not strictly legal into the Law School course, such as economics, political science, accounting, etc.; the possibility of including a tutorial system during the first year of work; legal aid work available to all third year students; the case system; and the time to be spent on argument and recitation in class and that to be given to lectures...
Washington, May 27--President Roosevelt went into conference tonight with New Deal legal experts to see what could be salvaged...
Finally, even if the bill works as the A. F. of L. hopes, there may be an uncomfortable backfire. In the U. S. unions have for all practical purposes succeeded in keeping themselves free from legal responsibility for their acts, but with greater power that immunity might not survive. After Britain's powerful unions staged a general strike in 1926, a Trade Disputes Act was passed making unions legally responsible for their acts. U. S. Business, already arguing that unions should be held accountable, may gain public support as the A. F. of L. gains power...
...lobby in Washington, at least for the present. But it was going after membership. Proof of this fact was the Organizing Committee whose most prominent member is Mrs. Hortense Odium, president of Manhattan's Bonwit, Teller & Co. (clothes), wife of Investment Truster Floyd B. Odium of Atlas Corp. Legal counsellor is Mrs. Jean Nelson Penfield, New York attorney and onetime suffragette. National Director is Radio Lecturer Cathrine Curtis who claims she first decided to educate women investors when she overheard a dowager exclaim at a party: "Commodities are like utilities, I mean they are something like options. I have...