Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anti-Trust Laws, "We have anti-trust laws, to be sure, but they have not been adequate to check the growth of many monopolies. Whether or not they might have been adequate originally, interpretation by the courts and the difficulties and delays of legal procedure have now definitely limited their effectiveness. We are already studying how to strengthen our anti-trust laws in order to end monopoly-not to hurt but to free legitimate business of the nation...
Along with the property went $800,000 to be paid in back taxes, a vast amount of debts. And Beula Croker's legal affairs are still in such a mess that it may take two or three years of hard litigation to clear the title to all her property...
Serving only on the Herald board, Frank Shutts will have more time for his legal firm, Shutts & Bowen, one of the largest in the South. At 40, Mr. Shutts had settled down in Aurora, Ind. as lawyer and weekly paper publisher, a "leading citizen" in a quiet Ohio river town. His life took an unexpected twist when the bankrupt Miami News-Record imported...
Professor Chafee's article on the Narragansett Park flare-up contains an enlightening discussion of the legal issues involved. These points of law are interesting indeed, but, as pointed out in the article, they hardly attract public attention as do the dramatic issues. All over New England people are watching the Rhode Island drama with nothing short of amazement, and the reason they are amazed is that they are witnessing the breakdown of law and order...
...Southern California and the Institut fur Luftrecht in Konigsberg, Germany, as well as Northwestern-Dr. Fagg, a Wartime liver, founded and headed the Institute of Air Law in Chicago in 1929, became so authoritative an expert in his subject that the Federal Government drafted him as part-time legal adviser in 1934, later asked him to help revise the civil air regulations...