Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago, with an angry blast at California's then new 15% income tax law and a comparison of tax collectors to gangsters & gunmen, William Randolph Hearst changed his legal residence from California to New York. Lately, Mr. Hearst has been having his prodigiously scrambled possessions audited, consolidated, made liquid by a new set of exchequer chancellors (TIME, March 14, et ante). Last week, for reasons best known to his tax experts, William Randolph Hearst wrote a letter to Assessor W. M. Hollister of San Luis Obispo County, Calif. announcing that as of January 1 he had returned...
...wagered on the race, $130,000 was on Lawrin. The return was $2.20 for $2, the legal minimum of 10? on the dollar...
...some corporations there are more stockholders than there are inhabitants of Wyoming. Are these stockholders' interests protected, their officers under sufficient legal control...
...have received no reply. Lawyer Elton, independently seeking to reseat the Duke on the throne, bases his case on the claim that the 1936 Abdication Act, while passed by Parliament, is illegal because it was not a mandate from the people. Fortnight ago, however, his cause received its first legal setback. Founder Elton's statement of claim that the Act was "illegitimate" was refused a hearing on the grounds that it was not on the regular schedule of cases...
Divorced. James McDonald III, 24, Idaho oil heir; by Alecea Brezee McDonald; in Reno. Grounds: desertion. Hour later Mr. McDonald married Doris Marie Cunningham, 22, to give their son born out of wedlock a legal name, was promptly divorced by her on grounds of cruelty, next day married June C. Kerns...