Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a long, bitter legal battle during which Bubbleman Bowman spent most of his time scuttling around the Gulf of Mexico in a sea-sled, the Pennsylvania State supreme court upheld his reinstatement as president of Gum, Inc. last July. That month Gum, Inc. made $7,472, after six months' earnings of $49,000 on sales estimated at about $800,000. Bubbleman Bowman's only current worry is a suit by his estranged second wife, Ruth, who claims a verbal agreement to a half-interest in his holdings. Last week, after the first arguments were heard, Philadelphians believed...
This week a comparable legal question involving radio broadcasting arose in connection with the Joe Louis-Tommy Farr fight at Manhattan's Yankee Stadium. Buick Motors bought the exclusive broadcasting rights to the fight for $35,000. Transradio Press Service, Inc. and Radio News Association, Inc. whose business is supplying radio stations with news for broadcasting, announced that they would furnish running accounts of the fight for $10 per radio station. Buick's advertising agency, NBC whose network was being used by Buick, the fight promoters and the fighters went to court asking $100,000 damages...
Everybody knows that no criminal has any legal protection against the publication of the facts of his conviction. Murderer Durkin's chief hope for an injunction was therefore based on an unusual Illinois statute which makes it unlawful to exhibit for pecuniary gain criminal or deformed persons. Federal Judge J. Leroy Adair pondered, decided "exhibiting" meant displaying the person as on a vaudeville stage, refused the injunction. Benton & Bowles's Manhattan publicity department shot out an exultant news release claiming "freedom of speech in commercial broadcasting was upheld for the first time in radio history." Promptly Murderer Durkin...
...manufacturers of the U. S.* agreed with the A. F. of M. on a closed shop for musicians in the record industry. The manufacturers have already established in court their right as patent owners to determine how their discs may be used commercially. There was thus little sign of legal squalls ahead when the A. F. of M. last week got the manufacturers to agree that so far as coin machines are concerned, discs may not be used in any place which has ever employed musicians, or any place to which admission is charged. This restriction, however, may not help...
...commissioners of police and correction and ordered one to set up a Sex Bureau like Chicago's, the other to do everything possible to keep all sex offenders locked up until their cases could receive a thorough psychological investigation. Roared the impetuous little mayor: "There are many legal loopholes through which these offenders can now escape full punishment for their crimes. But, God help the judge who turns one of these men loose if anything happens afterward...