Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back as 1935, when Japan tried to corner enough of China's silver currency to control her trade, China cleverly countered by withdrawing silver as legal tender and issuing notes which could be of no use to Japan...
Emphasizing the tremendous contributions that Root made to the field of law during his life in the legal profession and in the public service, the speakers addressed a large gathering of representatives of the Law School and of the Boston...
...power to declare war rests solely with the Congress, but the conduct of foreign relations, the thinking and acting that preserves peace or leads up to war, are the President's lawful and awful responsibility. Last week the senior house of Congress began discussion of that specific legal harness for the President which is called the Neutrality Act: whether to extend, revise, or scrap it (see p. 18). But everyone knew that, Neutrality Act or no Neutrality Act, the nation's predominant emotions and judgment would in the end determine its international course. By last week two opposed...
...revenue, police their own citizens and commerce for the public good. In self-defense, in response to pressure-groups, and, most of all, in blind efforts to combat Depression, the States have stretched and perverted these powers to impose taxes, trucking fees, quarantines, which in actual if not legal fact are tariffs between the States. Since most of the devices are technically constitutional, only the Legislatures which created them can remove them...
...gridiron reputation, an M. A. and LL.B. cum laude. Going to Atlanta as a stranger to practice law, he attracted both friends and clients by acting as line coach for the Georgia Tech football team under famed John William Heisman. In 1917 he went to Pittsburgh to form a legal department for the Mellon-controlled Koppers Co. (coal, coke, gas, tar), rose to be a vice president and director. Through his friend Cyrus Eaton of Republic Steel Corp., he became a Republic director. When in 1932 a change in Koppers management sent John Brookes back to Washington to practice corporation...