Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situation involving as many factors- civil rights, union propaganda, legal picketing. emergency police powers, actual violence and armed citizenry-as Monroe's picket line battle the reporter who can tell a connected story with proper emphasis is to be congratulated, and I want to extend those congratulations to TIME. Its account of the "Second battle of the River Raisin" I TIME, June 21 ] is in keeping with TIME'S record. In only one particular I would like to add a codicil for accuracy: Mayor Knagg's motley army carried no guns when it broke the picket line...
...least one occasion Secretary of Labor Perkins has indicated that in her mind the legal status of the Sit-Down was not proven. President Roosevelt, a lawyer by training, is known to have had no illusions that the Sit-Down was legal but to have deprecated it as no crime, just a misdemeanor. Last week in Philadelphia in the first Sit-Down ruling from the Federal bench, the Circuit Court of Appeals declared that sit-downers in a local hosiery mill were not only guilty of such crimes as forcible entry and forcible detainer but had violated the Wagner...
...postscript to his series, Harold Denny came through with some official statistics showing that in the past five months the Soviet birth rate has doubled. This major phenomenon is due, of course, to Dictator Stalin's having suddenly last year made abortion no longer legal in the Soviet Union (TIME, July 6, 1935). Communist sex morals had been so loosened by nearly two decades of abortions in State clinics that millions of Russian females have continued promiscuous relations and, without abortions, the increase in births has shot up so sharply that Moscow, with 2,000 maternity beds last year...
...adviser he had a large hand in making the tax bill of 1934 whose loopholes he is now pointing out. Moreover, before becoming Under Secretary, he was a professor at Columbia University and wrote several learned books on taxation which pointed out the kinds of tax avoidance which were legal, the kinds that were illegal evasions. One speech of his was regarded as such valuable advice on how to save on taxes that Manhattan's Chemical Bank published and circulated it. Washington watched alertly to see if some of the mud kicked up by the President...
Anything but simple is the great legal mind of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Allsebrook Simon, long the Empire's highest-paid lawyer. But one day last week he was suddenly congratulated by almost every London newspaper on being the author of what Britons dubbed good-humoredly "Simple Simon...