Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fastest flip-flop ever executed by the Supreme Court was on the constitutionality of State minimum wage laws for women. In invalidating New York State's minimum wage law in June 1936, it created a legal "no man's land" from which both State and Federal legislation was barred. In March 1937, the Court adroitly reversed itself, to uphold an analogous Washington statute...
...anywhere in the Soviet Union. However, the official Soviet press said last week that at Leningrad a citizen named Golubev was given seven years for "swearing at candidates." He only swore and so was let off easily. An opposition speech would have been "Trotskyism" or "wrecking," for which the legal penalty is death...
...away her U. S. citizenship, became solely a Danish subject like her husband, sailed back to England on the Europa after 36 hours in the U. S. Through her attorneys the granddaughter of the 5?-&-10? chain's Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth explained she desired to avoid "various legal complications." Biggest complication avoided: the estimated $21,000,000 U. S. inheritance tax her estate would lose at her death...
...evidence from 263 witnesses in Milwaukee, a Federal grand jury last week was ready to announce its findings when crusty Federal Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger suddenly post-poned them. Judge Geiger in his 25 years on the bench has become known as one judge who will tolerate no legal shenanigans. Last week he had just got wind of considerable shenanigans...
...Express Corp. and others for having deprived her of 20 future years' support when her husband, Jungle-Explorer Martin Elmer Johnson died following last January's air crash near Burbank, Calif. (TIME, Jan. 25). Among defendants she named her sister-in-law, Frieda Johnson Cripts, in a legal move to find out what claims if any Mrs. Cripts has on the explorer's estate...