Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starter. To tall, solemn, silent Representative Howard Smith of Broad Run, Va., who has hated the New Deal ever since it tried to purge him last year, it gave the delicate job of chairman. With wealthy Lawyer Edmund Toland and 22 attorneys assisting (called brilliant legal lights by the Right, called tools of reaction by the Left), it checked on the work of the three members of the National Labor Relations Board, the doings of its 22 regional offices, its 109 field examiners, its 10,000 cases a year. Last week, with a formal flourish, Mr. Smith pulled back...
...book had been published in Paris in 1934 and was considered by severe critics to be, even in its fantasies, of extraordinary documentary power. It was also known to a number of readers as a piece of uproarious pornography. Rather than invite another legal battle like that over Joyce's Ulysses, Publisher Laughlin last month brought out The Cosmological Eye, a book of more or less castrated selections from Miller's writing. By doing this much, New Directions called attention to Miller's latest long book, Tropic of Capricorn, published in Paris this year...
Before Adolf Hitler came to power, tall, flabby Dr. Hans Frank, one of the first Nazis, was kept busy defending brown-shirted terrorists in German courts and figuring out legal ways & means for the Nazis to take over the Government. Since Jan. 30, 1933, Dr. Frank has been even more occupied writing a Nazi Penal Code, compiling briefs proving the Third Reich's legal rights to its conquests, thinking up new methods to milk the Jews of their money and jobs...
...Frank who introduced "love of the Führer" into Nazi Germany as a "legal concept." He also invented the notion of "civic death," whereby the Nazis' enemies would be denied all legal existence and hence would have no rights, recourse to law or protection. Instead of "no punishment without law," Dr. Frank's motto was "no crime without punishment." Besides being a Minister Without Portfolio and Reich's Commissioner for Justice, Dr. Frank is also president of the German Academy of Law and Governor General of the Occupied Territories in Poland. Last week his various duties...
...before the Academy, Lawyer Frank defined Germany's new code as "war law," predicted that these Nazi principles of law would soon become a part of world law. "The maxim 'Right is whatever profits a nation; wrong is whatever harms it,' marked the beginning of our legal work," Dr. Frank keynoted. "Pale phantoms of objective justice do not exist for us any more. . . . The transition from the normal status of National Socialist legal thinking to thinking in terms of the law of war is being accomplished without grave upheavals. . . . The decisive principle is, who is stronger...