Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Public, to make these studies and give him recommendations. If the Administrator should not like the findings of any board, he could veto them, create another board. To collect pay awarded by the boards, employes could sue their employers in the Federal Courts. Liability: double the wages due, plus legal costs. Penalties upon employers who break...
Remington Rand Inc. James H. Rand Jr. had no valid complaint against NLRB orders to his company, and 4,000 employes whom the company hired to replace strikers in 1936 have no legal claim to jobs which Remington Rand was ordered to restore to A. F. of L. unionists...
This application of the law of usury was a nasty jolt to Mississippi's cotton planters. It meant that henceforth they cannot charge more than legal interest on furnish unless they want to run the risk of supplying it free...
...will & testament was an award of his estate's residue to the Toronto woman who, in ten years after his death, would prove to be the city's champion child-producer. A bachelor, Mr. Millar was not experienced enough to foresee a tie. After 17 months of legal haggling, the prize money of Toronto's famed "stork derby" was awarded last week. Four buxom, prolific, poor mothers, each having produced nine children during the ten-year period, split the money between them, received checks for $100,000 each. Out of this one mother must return...
...Pugh, however, was a prominent anti-Machenite: the man who, in 1934, was credited with perfecting the legal devices by which fundamentalist followers of the late Dr. J. Gresham Machen were read out of the Presbyterian Church. As a sudden, random gesture of conciliation toward the Machenites, the nominating committee last week picked a dark horse. The gesture was so random that the dark horse. Rev. Paul Coverly Johnston of Rochester, N. Y., had gone home unaware he was nominated. He telegraphed his withdrawal, whereupon Dr. Pugh won hands down...