Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal adviser, Milwaukee's Joseph A. Padway, declared that A. F. of L. was willing to await the outcome of the pending Allis-Chalmers test case to see whether or not the Wagner Act was to be "circumvented, perverted and turned into an instrument of propaganda for the C. I. O. "But if the decision was against craft unionism and unless the law was "speedily" amended, he warned, then there would be only one thing left to do: repeal...
...banks" as "credit institutions," thus making them liable to measures which under Dominion law could not be applied to them as banks. All three were so extraordinary that the King's Lieutenant-Governor refused to sign and sent the bills to Lord Tweedsmuir, the Governor General who in legal fiction is "the Person of the King in Canada...
...Approved the appointment for a two-year term of a national director of public information concerning the legal profession-a press agent to improve the U. S. layman's opinion of lawyers...
...body politic is chained to the political operating table and the dreamers of dreams and the seers of visions are permitted at will to cut and probe and slash the helpless victim." Two days later Nebraska's anti-New Deal Senator Edward R. Burke appealed to the legal profession's self-pity: "There was a time when the banker was the favorite 'whipping boy.' The welts of the lash upon the . . . banker may now be permitted to heal while the lawyer takes his place with bared back at the post...
...teaching-legal duties had worn him to a frazzle and he returned to Yakima to practice. After ten days he changed his mind, hustled back to Manhattan to teach full time at Columbia. A year later he idealistically resigned because President Nicholas Murray Butler appointed a new dean of the Law School without first consulting the faculty. Shortly afterwards at a party in Pelham he met famed Dean Robert Maynard Hutchins of Yale Law School. Next day Hutchins telephoned from New Haven, hired Bill Douglas to teach law at Yale. There he was director of bankruptcy studies, collaborated with...