Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moreover, the University agreed that for property held on July 1, 1928, but which might thereafter be built on for "educational purposes," it would not claim its legal right of tax-exemption at a rate greater than 10 per cent a year. Under this agreement, which is the one Toomey wants amended, Harvard has paid about...
...School dormitories and demanded a piano. He was politely informed that a piano was not available at that time of night. In keeping with his Marxian ideas of property, he then asked to be taken where there was a piano. This demand conflicted with the legal conscience of the Law School men, and he was sent back to his room to brood on the injustice...
...license to commit acts of violence or to seize their employer's plant. ... To justify such conduct [as NLRB had justified it] because of the existence of a labor dispute or of an unfair labor practice would be to put a premium on resort to force instead of legal remedies and to subvert the principles of law and order which lie at the foundations of society. As [Fansteel's] unfair labor practices afforded no excuse for the seizure and holding of its buildings, [Fansteel] had its normal rights of redress. Those rights, in their most obvious scope, included...
...Gregory Zilboorg, prominent Manhattan psychiatrist, complained that legal technicalities deprive psychiatrists of the opportunity to study criminals. A murderer, he said, "is treated as the private property of the State, and no gaze of free inquiry may rest on his psyche." Only a psychiatrist, he said, can solve the "nuclear problem" of impulsive murder: why a murderer kills with slight provocation, and why he chooses a certain victim, often a complete stranger, at a given moment. He told of the case of the Manhattan upholsterer, John Fiorenza, who killed Mrs. Nancy Titterton in her Beekman Place apartment three years...
...Mississippian, one of the most influential members of the Senate, served notice that he will oppose President Roosevelt's plan to lift the legal limit of the National Debt from $45,000,000,000 to fifty billion...