Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wallace lined up beside the President against Mr. Farley, Mr. Hull and the Vice President. The War and Navy Secretaries mostly keep out of it, the new Attorney General sticks to his legal knitting. Harry Hopkins is still a loyal New Dealer but in his new job has discovered a new zeal for Recovery. And loyal, long-suffering Henry Morgenthau is at last showing his conservative colors...
...Constitutional principles that until now guaranteed the solidity of our institutions are more and more frequently disregarded; responsibility is shifted; separation of power is not respected; organizations without legal mandates intervene in the formation and dislocation of governments; the exercise of executive power is no longer done in conformity with constitutional rules; the Chief of State finds himself . . . sometimes obliged to sanction decisions taken without his knowledge...
...raise the legal limit of the U. S. debt from $45,000,000,000, which it is to reach in 16 months, to $50,000,000,000. (The debt on March...
Plenty of liquor is drunk in Tennessee, and it is legal to manufacture liquor in Tennessee for export to other States. This last is due to the cuteness of rich, tieless old Lem Motlow who owns most of Moore County. In 1937, Lem Motlow wangled a law enabling him to reopen his family's oldtime Jack Daniel No. 7 bourbon distillery at Lynchburg. But not for 30 years, until last week, was it legal to sell liquor in Tennessee. That was due to the assassination of Editor Edward Ward Carmack of the Nashville Tennessean after the hot Governorship campaign...
...previous merger proposals, subway bondholders would have exchanged their securities for bonds issued by a Board of Transit Control and not guaranteed by the city itself. Last year, at the November election, voters passed an amendment to the constitution allowing the city to exceed its legal debt limit by $315,000,000 to effect transit unity. And by last week, when the city offered $175,000,000 for B. M. T. alone, Chairman Dahl was glad to take it, for depression and competition from the Independent have continuously weakened his position. That leaves the city $140,000,000 in City...