Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal battle of Harvard '42 versus the American Legion passed into the realm of history yesterday when the case of the four Yardlings previously convicted of breaking up a Legion parade of October 6 was quietly nolle pressed when it came up for appeal before Justice Wolch in Superior Court...
...served in Congress, in addition to his judicial experience. Politically perhaps his appointment would not be the expedient for the President, for New Mexico is rarely a crucial state, with its three electoral votes. Denman is a weak judge in a weak circuit, according to the best legal opinion of the Pacific Coast, while Senator Schwelleubach has numerous drawbacks...
...addition to being so far to the Left of the Left of the Senate that they considered seating him in the Left hand cloakroom for a time, he has a rather limited legal and judicial experience. He practiced in Seattle for about 11 years, and his other accomplishments (listed by himself in his "congressional Record" autobiography) include the Stage Commandership of the American Legion in 1922, and the fact that he is bachelor, residing with his mother." The recently-defeated Governor Murphy of Michigan, known as the friend of the C.I.O. is anathema to the conservative wing of the Democratic...
acquired Perky's business. There followed a long legal skirmish in the U. S. and in England: National Biscuit sued Kellogg, valuing the Shredded Wheat trade name at $5,000,000 and claiming sole right to both the name and the design...
...connecting link in the great Van Sweringen system. To get control of C. & E. I. after ICC had disapproved linking it with the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Vans pulled off a slick deal in which Paine, Webber & Co. acted as dummy purchasers. A subsequent circumventing of legal requirements, whereby the Vans got RFC unwittingly to pay off an inter-company loan, drew an ICC examiner's admission that "we were made monkeys of. . . ." Last week ICC approved a reorganization plan for C. & E. I. that made monkeys of the late Van Sweringens' successors by slashing away nearly three-quarters...