Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decisions handed down, the most important per se was a preliminary victory for the National Labor Relations Board in its dispute with Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines Inc. The Court announced that it would review the case, which may or may not turn out to have a profound effect on the legal standing of company unions...
Appearing today is the first issue of this year's Law Review, Law School legal periodical, which is now embarking on its second half century of publication. The three leading articles are written by Professor W. Ivor Jenning of the London School of Economics, ics, Robert L. Stearn, assistant to the United States Attorney-General, and Randolph Hall, of the New York...
State law specifically lists idiocy and social disease as the only legal causes, requires a 30-day notice of hearings to interested parties. Since Beloit's notably modest entrance requirements are an I. Q. of better than 50 and absence of venereal disease, and since, according to Mrs. McCarthy, inadequate notice was often given, she maintained the sterilizations were doubly illegal...
...French and most other European Governments have "secret funds" which it is perfectly legal for the Premier to expend in absolutely any manner he thinks fit-indeed, no Frenchman would be surprised to learn that plug-uglies of the Left were receiving wads of banknotes from the Popular Front Cabinet today to "keep order"-but that any onetime Premier should so utterly lack discretion as to blurt out brutal facts of this kind and give the politicians' show away, last week astonished Europe. But there was no outcry that French Democracy should no longer employ "secret funds" since these...
Heretofore it has been considered beyond the Reserve Board's legal powers to restrict short sales and that job has been left to the stock exchanges. The New York Exchange has long imposed a margin requirement of ten points on any stock sold short. For a stock selling at $1 this meant not 50% but 1,000% margin. For the average priced stock it meant about 35%, but this was only a minimum and many a brokerage house upped it as high as 50% in special cases. On the 7,000,000-share "black Tuesday" fortnight...