Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppose it is legal enough," said he, "but I just don't like the idea of getting money from these workers for political purposes. What they need to do is spend their money on food and clothing and shelter...
Aside from the obvious moral objection to diverting WPA's relief "wages" to political ends, the legal fact remained that the money is paid by the U. S. Treasury and that Section No. 208 of the U. S. Criminal Code specifically prohibits recipients of Federal funds from soliciting each other for political contributions...
...threat potentially more fearsome to gamblers, however, than State's Attorney Courtney-whose zeal, they guessed, would cool after election-was an archaic legal rattrap brought out and set last week by an irate Chicago matron in behalf of her son-in-law. Paragraph No. 330 (enacted in 1817) of Illinois' Criminal Code sets forth that: 1) any person losing $10 or more gambling in Illinois can sue the winner and recover his money; 2) if a loser does not sue within six months, "any person" can sue the winner for three times the loser's losses...
Before portly Superior Judge Emmett H. Wilson,-* known for his many labor injunctions, Times attorneys argued that no ordinary judge could have been unduly swayed, that the Times was exercising its constitutional right of free speech, that if comment were prohibited until every legal move were exhausted, what about the Mooney case-still going strong after more than 20 years...
...infinitesimal figure of $.00001907378, per mile, put that in as their bid. Much to their disgust, Eastern, spurning machines and decimal fractions, offered the decisively low bid of $0.00. The Post Office department sniffed these bargain figures cautiously. Allowing that Eastern's zero bid might be quite legal, it hemmed and hawed, then announced that it would leave the decision up to incoming CAA. But last week, just before CAA came in, the Post Office decided that $.00001907378 saved is $.00001907378 earned, awarded the Brownsville link to zero-bidding Eastern...