Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just before the New Deal was inaugurated, Homer Cummings of Stamford, Conn, was slated to be Governor General of the Philippines. He went into the Cabinet, vice Walsh, on 48 hours' notice. It was understood he would serve only a two-year hitch, but his willingness to find legal paths to Franklin Roosevelt's goals made the latter persuade him to stay on. However, the path he proposed to enable the New Deal to make over the Supreme Court won him no kudos when it failed...
...conference. He reviewed his labors, which began with an opinion on the President's power to call a bank holiday, written personally, in penciled long hand, in the Library of Congress while his chief's first inaugural was in progress March 4, 1933. He recalled the hot legal battles of AAA and NRA; the building of the FBI from a sleuthing unit to an armed force with powers of arrest and a sharp-toothed Federal crime code behind it; the improvement of U. S. prisons, notably the creation of Alcatraz. With special pride he pointed...
...Great Britain, still recognizes Leftist Spain as the legitimate Spanish Government and has not granted belligerent rights to Rightist Spain, any interference with U. S. shipping (as well as French or British) by the Rightist navy or air force would, under international law, be an "act of piracy." Legal niceties have not prevented Generalissimo Francisco Franco, however, from bombing British and French ships and seizing Scandinavian ships, although so far. with few exceptions, he has let U. S. shipping alone...
...famous French criminal cases. His most celebrated defense, although it failed, was that of "the French Bluebeard," Henri Desire Landru, accused of butchering ten women and a boy. The defense arguments in this case are still regarded by members of the Paris bar as tops in technical perfection and legal virtuosity. Landru was guillotined February...
...merely the usual legal attack on Big Business management, the milk-trust charges encompassed union activities and ran the gamut from price-fixing to tales of arson, flogging and stench bombings. Chicago was picked as the locale for the trial because these factors made it represent "in extreme form" what the Department of Justice terms a nationwide milk "situation...