Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When St. Ambrose opened this fall he had distributed 25 charters covering more than 500 members. For a 50? fee members receive an authorized R. C. T. emblem as a visible roadside high-sign, and a certified identification card bearing on the reverse a legal waiver releasing any motorist kind enough to offer a lift from liability in case of accident. Encouraged by the Roman Catholic faculty at St. Ambrose, Thumber Fiese plans to enlist 800 more colleges. Says he: "We believe our fundamental idea is sound and . . . that our organization will benefit society. ... I have a girl friend...
...hand of the prosecutor will be lying face-up and the opportunities for cross-examination by Attorney Stryker vastly enhanced. For the "Great Prosecutor" whom Republicans had already slated for the gubernatorial nomination at their State convention this month, it was the humiliation of being caught in an ABC legal error...
...WPAsters in Kentucky's 32 western counties had been carefully listed so as to show the names and addresses of all legal voters in their families. This work was done by WPA workers on WPA time but on stationery supplied by Senator Barkley's headquarters. The lists were handed to Mr. Barkley's campaign managers in the 32 counties. Later most of the lists were burned...
...Trade unions (which in Britain means associations of employers as well as of workers) enjoy not only a legal status but immunity from charges of "restraint of trade." The famed Trade Disputes & Trade Unions Act of 1927, inspired by the General Strike of 1926, outlaws only strikes by unions in one industry called in sympathy for discontented unions in another industry and calculated to coerce the Government. No union may be sued for a sympathetic strike within a given industry even though it is designed to coerce the Government. Thus, "for ordinary industrial strikes, the immunity of trade unions...
...Parliament has legalized all such picketing as does not 1) block traffic, 2) intimidate non-strikers, 3) lead to a breach of the peace. Result: "violence on the part of the workers, and provocative tactics on the part of the employers, have not for a long time played any significant part in industrial disturbances." C, British trade unions cannot incorporate but they may register, which gains them continuity of being and certain tax exemptions; or they can get a certificate, which gains no tax exemptions but proves title to a union's legal immunities for striking. Neither registration...