Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Administration's lustiest legal aides, Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson and Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold, joined a defense committee for their fellow-member of the liberal National Lawyers Guild, C.I.O. Attorney Edward Lamb of Toledo. Mr. Lamb faces disbarment proceedings because of allegedly unprofessional remarks in court in opposing an injunction against the United Shoe Workers of America. According to the committee: "Mr. Lamb's remarks may call for an expression of apology to the court. They must not be made the excuse for an attempt to invade fundamental liberties...
...Mexico City for the signing of contracts later, if possible. The big question: Was this "hot oil"-that is, are the U. S. and Britain going to agree or disagree with the proclamation by which President Cárdenas laid down three weeks ago that it was right and legal for Mexican oil workers to seize these great properties and prepare to operate them in the name of their Government...
...Promptly her studio, Warner Bros., suspended her, cut off her $3,500-a-week salary for the six weeks it may take to find her another picture. Commented Bette, whose rebellion against Warners nearly two years ago wound up in the British courts: "I feel we will have legal trouble...
...Bell System has successfully evaded effective State regulation, despite the separate corporate entities of the operating subsidiaries. . . . The System is treated as a unit for purposes of profit, and as a group of separate corporate legal entities for purposes of regulation." A. T. & T. is a utility and a monopoly and should therefore be regulated by the Government...
...fiercely cried: "Joe Louis!" Such was the death two years ago of Allen Foster, first criminal to be executed in the lethal gas chamber of the North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh. The Foster execution lasted eleven minutes, provoked a storm of newspaper criticism. Today lethal gas executions are legal in six States besides North Carolina-Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, and Cali-fornia-and are increasingly efficient, but to many conservative criminals and laymen alike the humdrum noose or electric chair still seems safer...