Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power of union leaders to discriminate against individuals will be curbed. Unions will be prevented from arbitrarily excluding men from jobs; employers will have greater freedom in hiring & firing as a result of the outlawing of closed shops. Union shops will still be legal...
Gandhi broke his shell. He decided manual labor was essential to the good life; he still thinks Indians will find peace only through making their own clothes on the charka (spinning wheel). So he gave up a legal practice bringing in about ?5,000 a year, moved to a farm settlement where his helpers worked the ground, and began to get out a newspaper, Indian Opinion...
...rhapsody is not the only notice the Dominican Republic has had recently in the U.S. A spate of glowing publicity pictures and handouts on Trujillo-land has been cluttering editorial desks. And as his U.S. legal representative (registered with the Department of Justice's Foreign Agents Section), Dictator Trujillo has hired onetime New Dealing Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' Washington law firm (Cummings & Stanley...
...Chicago, Judge Elmer J. Schnackenberg listened attentively to Witness Andrew Jackson, while across the hall Judge Julius H. Miner explained why he couldn't hear Christopher Columbus Spenson's case right away: first he had to handle legal matters involving George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant and Calvin Coolidge...
Adele Marsh went to Reno in 1943 to end her brief wartime marriage to a Navy C.P.O. While she waited out the six weeks that make divorce-seekers legal residents of Nevada, she got a job behind the roulette wheel at Harold's Club, Reno's immense, noisy gambling joint which spends some of its million-dollar profits to endow scholarships at the University of Nevada (TIME, June 17, 1946). She also enrolled at the university, which is only a few blocks from Harold...