Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hastings, Delaware Republican, stood up in the Senate last week and challenged "anybody" to say a good word for NRA, not a single Senator on either side of the aisle went to that organization's defense. Meanwhile courts in Missouri, New York and Wisconsin continued to pull more legal feathers from the Blue Eagle's already skimpy tail. In New Orleans Senator Borah's nephew, Judge Wayne Borah, refused to grant an injunction restraining a box company from alleged violation of the lumber code, pointedly added: "Personally, I believe the whole NIRA is unconstitutional." The Senate Finance...
...Sundowner." A dapper, distinguished little fellow with pink cheeks and silvery hair, Frank Joseph Hogan is rated as the Federal Government's No. 1 legal antagonist. Last week he reckoned up the score of his 30-year game at: Hogan 20; Government...
Irritable, stubble-haired Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin's reply to this was to ask for summary legal action against M. Dorgeres for "impairing the credit of France...
...teeth," shouted the liberals. By way of teeth they proposed an amendment guaranteeing legal aid to embattled liberal teachers. Superintendent J. Chester Cochran of San Antonio, Tex., spoke for the Committee: "We all believe in freedom of the Press, freedom of speech and all that sort of thing. But we don't feel that it is our business to fight anybody's private war. It's just a fight between the Hearst papers and the Columbia University group." The superintendents voted down the amendment, adopted the original resolution...
...stubs of the Morgan volume contain the names of a score of prominent Revolutionary figures, among whom are Andrew Craigie, apothecary-general of the Revolutionary Army; Edward Livingston, the distinguished jurist; Brockholst, Livingston, a prominent figure in American legal life and later Justice of the Supreme Court; Joseph Barrell and James Watson, noted New York merchants; Comfort Sands, founder of the Atlantic Magazine and co-editor with William Cullon Bryant; and John Pintard, a book collector who founded the Massachusetts and New York Historical Societies...