Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also unexpectedly peaceful last week were union activities in Detroit. Recalling the thoroughgoing licking a number of its unionists received at Ford Co.'s River Rouge plant last May when they attempted to distribute leaflets, United Automobile Workers, planning to distribute more literature, last fortnight applied for legal protection from the city of Dearborn, were informed that U. A. W. was a "legal nonentity" (TIME, Aug. 16).* Last week, guarded by State police who were on hand at the request of Michigan's Governor Murphy, 800 U. A. W. unionists showed up outside the gates of the Ford...
...Dearborn's attorney: "You may recall that there was recently held in the City of Detroit a National Labor Board hearing upon charges against the Ford Co. by the nonentity, the International Union, United Automobile Workers of America. It would appear, therefore, that the nonentity has a legal standing before the U. S. Government...
...Socialist named Richard Whitten, who left last autumn to work for his party. Commonwealth's most energetic official remained Charlotte ("Chucky") Moskowitz, executive secretary and wife of Lucien Koch's brother Raymond. Redhaired, 29, and freckled, "Chucky" Moskowitz raised money for the College, saw it through its legal and extra-legal baitings, got it electrical and water systems, a printing plant and the dairy in which the cows are now fed on the un-Marxian principle of "to each according to what she produces." Miss Moskowitz, during the last of her twelve years at Commonwealth, helped steer...
...tantamount to condemning that unborn child to death. Such an operation might be considered in effect an autopsy, and I know there is a law which prohibits autopsies without the consent of relatives, in cases where there is no presumption or suspicion of crime. But that unborn child has legal rights...
...drivers to quizzes on traffic law. Undersheriff Coling was undismayed by the possibility that motor clubs would route their clients around Racine County. Said he: "I'd be tickled pink if they would." He was also sure that Wisconsin law would back him up: "If anyone doubts the legal ability of a deputy to stop a car, let him keep on going. He'll get a bullet in a rear tire...