Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week as he delivered his charge to the jury, Judge Hincks noted that the defendants were "not compelled to prove their innocence." It was up to the Government to prove them guilty, and the Government had the toughest of all legal points to make-"criminal intent." It also had to prove that the picketing allegedly interfered with was in fact "peaceful." Even the Court was skeptical of Mr. Rand's announced intention of using the millwrights to dismantle his Middletown mill, observing, however: "If bluffing were illegal, I am afraid that there would be a considerable reduction...
...weeks ago in a Beck-Bridges dispute over some Seattle warehousemen, "the Tsar of Seattle Labor" threatened to close five warehouses if the Labor Board even held hearings. This week as C.I.O. eased its loading boycott the Labor Board entered Portland once more but in this thick atmosphere the legal highroads are little traveled...
...Daughters of American Revolution in Washington, Indiana's Representative Virginia Ellis Jenckes clarioned: "If we were alert in the maintenance of true national defense we would, through proper legal action, root up every Japanese cherry tree on Federal property, saw them up for firewood, and replant them with American cherry trees." That day will mark a precedent Which brings no news of Rockwell Kent...
...immediate legal weapon to force rayon producers to obey the rules,* but the National Retail Dry Goods Association was last week urging all its members to do so. The N.R.D.G.A. regards fibre identification as one more inevitable manifestation of the consumer research and protection movement that has been spreading through the U. S. for the past decade. But many a rayon man, forced into expensive changes of his production and advertising systems, thinks differently, and various rayon groups have spent the three weeks since the original FTC decision trying hard to get it altered. Last week Erwin Feldman, counsel...
...since Hitler began making things tough for German Jews. At first it was directed from the American Jewish Congress and the Jewish Labor Committee. Two years ago the two organizations joined forces, set up a Joint Boycott Council, whose present chairman is Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum. Though it has no legal boycott powers, the council is potent, for it marshals the opinions of 2,800,000 Jews...