Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both France and England stroked the little Generalissimo's mailed fist by trying to persuade the Loyalists that further fighting was useless, that they had just as well yield the remainder of Spain without further bloodshed. They even threatened to recognize Rebel Spain as the only legal Spanish Government, which would mean withdrawing recognition simultaneously from Loyalist Spain. This would give Generalissimo Franco the legal international right of starving out the Loyalists even if he could not conquer them. Illegally he is already doing just that. Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's Eire Government jumped...
...white shoes for an autograph al bum and likes to have all her friends sign their names along with little rhymes of poetry, such as : 'I dip my pen in ink and hope your feet don't stink.' " Editor Lath ers gets into plenty of legal fights, but as a onetime law student usually wins his own case. His paper has one catchall headline in which the first few words change each week, such as "WOOLEN INNER SHIRTS [or NEW RESOLUTIONS or HANDSLEDS] are ripe in the Land of Mears." He has been publishing it since...
Although the Armstrong Investigation viewed with alarm the steady mushrooming of the biggest insurance companies, no effective legal brakes were applied. At that time there were 138 legal reserve companies with aggregate assets of $2,924,253,848. Last week Bill Douglas declared that at the end of 1937 there were 308 legal reserve companies with aggregate assets of $26,249,049,219. The biggest three companies in 1906 had some half billion dollars in assets apiece then; now they have more than a billion apiece. And Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which in 1906 had only $176,000,000, today...
...look-see into insurance began to diverge from the Armstrong pattern of 33 years ago. The Armstrong Commission was primarily interested in insurance by itself; the Monopoly Committee is out to survey "the economic power inherent in the vast investment funds controlled by insurance companies. . . ." Today the largest 49 legal reserve companies hold 11% of the U. S. debt, 9.9% of all outstanding municipal bonds, 22.9% of all railroad bonds, 22% of the public utility debt, 15% of the industrial debt, 14.5% of urban mortgages. The Metropolitan alone now invests...
...Continued its catch-as-catch-can bout with potent Transamerica Corp. Going into its fifth week, SEC's investigation of A. P. Giannini's big bank holding company, on charges of false stock registration (TIME, Dec. 12), was still in the legal fencing stage...