Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middletown by "There are too dammed many laws in this country." Governor Quinn, the Wizard of West Warwick and Walter O'Hara, the Pawtucket Flash concur in this opinion, for according to Professor Chafee these two bulls have locked horns in, of all places, the china shop of the legal system, and they have broken most of the china...
Chafee's booklet, entitled "Dorr Pamphlet No. I", is one of the brightest and most entertaining clinical reports made lately on New England Politics. Anybody with a sense of humor will enjoy the dry wit which pervades all but the most legal parts. There is a feminine appeal, too, in the shape of Mrs. O'Hara and her disappointed horses, and a good bit of Drama in the clash of two sections of the Democratic Party, each led by strongwilled, self-made men. Unfortunately in Rhode Island...
...they telephone their lawyers. A good punch on the nose of one or the other of the two men would have settled the leadership of the Rhode Island Decocracy more quickly than the present litigation, which will drag out for years and leave the victorious merely the man whose legal crutch contains the smallest percentage of rubber...
...have seen. In 13 cities, from Albuquerque, N. Mex. to Boston, Mass., its producers have had to pay lawyers to fight local censorship. In Chicago, where a brief filed in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the play "a garbage pail of indecent dialogue and degenerate exhibitionism," legal defense cost nearly $75,000. As advertising it was cheap...
...most spectacular achievement in N.A.M. was the change of pitch between the militant N.A.M. Congress of 1935 and the pacific Congress of 1936, held during the short-lived "era of good-feeling," right after the Roosevelt landslide. Internally the N.A.M. has also changed-into a pressagent for Industry. Legal and statistical departments continue to operate, but the real job of its permanent personnel is selling what N.A.M. calls the "American Way" to the U. S. public. It furnishes newspapers with free stories, provides platform and radio speakers with free speeches, has made four cinema shorts including one on standards...