Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been much peace. But his insight fails him when he concludes that the cause of all the unrest has been the alleged one-sidedness of the Act and the incompetence of the Board which administers it. From the time that the Liberty League persuaded fifty of their most talented legal counsel to declare the Act unconstitutional to the most recent jeremiad of the National Association of Manufacturers, the hostility of an important segment of employers to collective bargaining has remained unabated. And it has resulted in the use of spies, munitions, special company police, bought newspapers and every disreputable device...
...keeping on foreign agents in the U. S. (not for spying abroad, in which the U. S. never did specialize). The Army & Navy intelligence services must be strengthened, said the President. This announcement synchronized misleadingly with the State Department's deadline for the registration of commercial, legal and publicity agents for foreign powers within U.S. borders...
...Curley rewarded him with a $5,000 publicity job but later fired him. In 1935, when Mr. Curley was Governor, Mr. McMasters tried to charter a pari-mutuel betting service, to get "for the State" some of the revenue pocketed by the horse-race bookies. Governor Curley's legal department turned him down. The next year Mr. McMasters ran for Governor as candidate of Father Coughlin's Union Party. His reappearance this year as a Townsend Planner had definite nuisance value to both Candidate Curley and Candidate Saltonstall, but most for the latter. After their deal last week...
...promise not to use these powers after November 15 without a further mandate from Deputies and Senators. Daladier had previously been voted confidence 535-to-75 by the Chamber, after keynoting: "All Frenchmen must now consider themselves permanently mobilized in the service of Peace. . . . We hope to substitute legal practices for solutions by force. ... In the interests of Peace, we propose to add to old and tried friendships some that are new or renewed...
...Laboratory of Applied Physiology, deplores drunken driving, believes that a combination of "science, law and common sense . . . [will] diminish alcoholic motor fatalities." In The New England Journal of Medicine Dr. Haggard and assistants Leon A. Greenberg and Louis H. Cohen held up their end of the combination and offered legal advice to police, simple physiological advice to drivers...