Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majority of the Justices took an empirical view. The test of reasonableness, wrote Chief Justice Vinson, varied with each case. A search for objects connected with a crime was legal in certain circumstances. In this case, the search was reasonable. It had to be intensive because of the small size of the objects searched for. The search was made "in good faith" and not as a pretext for looking for something else. The draft cards were seized legally...
...legal search warrant, since it must specify what is to be searched for and seized, "is not only unnecessary; it is a hindrance." As for the officers' good faith, "history has shown good police intentions to be inadequate safeguards for the precious rights...
...President Grau's Auténtico (Cuban Revolutionary Party) stayed away from the Congress; so did independents. They called it illegal, because the Government commission appointed to check delegates' credentials had not finished its work. At week's end the anti-Communist forces tentatively scheduled a "legal Congress" for May 18, speculated on who would control the Confederation's treasury if there were rival officers. They wondered if this would force President Grau, who needs Communist support for his administration, to take a stand for or against his Red allies...
Dionne, a religious man who goes to Mass every morning, is also a believer in the letter of the law. He keeps wages in most cases close to the legal minimum of 20? an hour, or $9.60 for a 48-hour week. Girls housed at Le Foyer spend $6 of this amount for board & keep...
...magnate, the working rules of society have been shaped by business men. As industrial relationships became more complex and more impersonal, labor found that even though its greater productivity justified higher wages, shorter hours, and more consideration for workers as individuals, its demands were blocked by archaic social and legal structures, adapted to an era of elipper ships and water wheels...