Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While the loan might frustrate complainant's hopes of a profitable investment," droned Justice Sutherland, "it would not violate any legal right. . . . Each of the municipalities in question has authority to construct its proposed plant and distribution system in competition with petitioner, and to borrow money, issue bonds and receive grants for that purpose." The Court further announced that it would dispose of the Duke Case on similar grounds...
...that his differences with the Premier, chiefly about matters of political patronage and spending of the Egyptian treasury's secret political funds (TIME, Jan. 3), should be arbitrated by a high tribunal to be composed of all living former Premiers, former speakers of the Egyptian Parliament and high legal officers. This royal offer Premier El Nahas, who has a huge majority in the present Parliament, refused, declaring: "Only Parliament is able to adjudicate this matter...
...thousand and last week the council approved the lease to U. G. I. Nothing daunted, Mayor Wilson refused to execute the new lease and on December 31, last day of the old U. G. I. lease, he declared a "state of emergency," asserting that there existed no legal contract or lease to operate the gasworks, that since "lawlessness . . . possible loss of life . . . injury . . . and damage to property" might ensue, he would take over the gasworks at midnight, reduce the rate at once to 50^, and raise the pay of "all necessary employes...
...decision the next move is up to the Labor Board, which at the expiration of the ten-day grace period will presumably apply to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an enforcing order, as provided by the Wagner Act. Then Henry Ford can start a legal battle against the Board which he may carry to the Supreme Court if necessary. The company announced at week's end that it would retain able Lawyer Frederick Wood of Manhattan, who contributed to the downfall of NRA as defense counsel in the Schechter ("sick chicken'') case...
...overthrowing New York State's minimum wage law and then upholding a similar one passed in Washington. His parable: Suppose that an old statute taxed horses at $10 a head and ducks at 10? that in time horses became worthless and ducks valuable. At this point legal scholars would redefine the duck, would inevitably rule that "Thomas Jefferson once remarked to his wife that his horses were worth much more than his ducks. Differences between feathers and hair were never mentioned by any of the founders. Therefore, it is apparent that the web-footed animals are really horses...