Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doing me harm. . . . Many of the charges which General Johnson has loosely made in private conversation regarding me and my activities can be completely disproved. . . . I simply desire to notify you that if you take the responsibility for publishing the statements by General Johnson . . . you must accept the full legal responsibility for taking such action without any adequate effort to assure yourself of the truth of the libel...
...Dern sorely needed General MacArthur to push military legislation in the coming Congress, to continue his army modernization plans. Despite a law which specifies four years of service for the General Staff Corps, Secretary Dern wanted the President to reappoint General MacArthur for another four years. Seldom bound by legal convention, and apparently without a substitute to relieve General MacArthur, President Roosevelt last week retained him in office indefinitely simply by writing a letter to that effect to the Secretary...
...Lords as a Court of Appeal (as Speaker of the House of Lords he gets an additional ?4,000) or over the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Also, in the words of the late, great Jeremy Bentham, the Lord High Chancellor is "the chief and most constant legal adviser of the King in all matters of law . . . keeper of the great seal, a various, multifarious and indefinable office . . . the possessor of a multitude of heterogeneous scraps of power too various to be enumerated." The Lord Chief Justice of England actually presides in King's Bench division over...
...Flynn stated that the New Deal's crime against the democratic state was that it grants the President power to surrender the control of the economic life of the people to trade associations and large corporations. He expected to see legal control of labor unions followed by the cooperative state, the disappearance of democracy, and a slow but sure movement toward absolute dictatorship...
Thus it is evident that the old diplomacy is not dead. Open covenants, openly arrived at, may at any time be supplemented by gentlemen's agreements, of no legal value but of tremendous actual importance. The annexation of Libya by Italy in 1911 was the result of just such an agreement, and it may well be that Abyssinia in 1934 will be similarly Europeanized...