Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another hearing on the constitutionality of TVA-had been postponed until mid-November. Mr. Jackson was a little jocose. He said he and his friends were "not unappreciative of the compliment implied'' by New York Republicans in choosing as their candidate for Senator a member of "the legal staff of this Administration"-Lawyer John Lord O'Brian of Buffalo (see p. 12}. The shoe was really on the other foot: Lawyer O'Brian also served the U.S. ably under Republicans Taft and Hoover before the New Deal complimented* him by making him a member...
...migrated to Manhattan 15 years ago Instead, he worked his way through Columbia School of Law by singing in churches. At Saratoga, the ringing baritone which was to have embellished the concert stage clarioned, in tones which rivaled the radio Roosevelt, a challenge as carefully prepared as any legal brief. He expanded his character as a scourger of city lawbreakers into that of a State champion against "the biggest racket of them all ... politics for profit...
Perhaps never before have statesmen of great powers negotiated so expeditiously. As fast as the Big Four agreed upon a basic point, their secretaries took this to an adjoining room, where it was dealt with by general staff officers and legal experts, ironing out all details...
...painful uprooting of the minorities which will leave the ceded territories, realists took heart from one fact. Unlike the rapes of Manchukuo and Ethiopia, the Czechoslovak rape had at least set a precedent, which might flower into a great influence for peace, for aggressors being persuaded to follow legal-diplomatic forms...
...romantic pioneer fiction, but she follows an authentic historical outline. In the first years the Sandlappers sweated blood digging irrigation ditches by hand, only to have the water disappear into underground rivers. But their bitterest struggle came when at last they had the desert blooming. This was their fight, legal and extralegal, with the El Dorado Railroad (Southern Pacific), which enticed them with a price of a few dollars an acre, held up titles until the land was producing and then demanded superprofits. Readers will sympathize with the Sandlappers in their losing fight but will be glad that something happened...