Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...birth rates in these two states are among the lowest in the country, and before the war were lower than those of France-about one-third of the physiological maximum. Obviously the majority of the people in both states practice birth control regardless of legal restrictions and religious taboos...
Professor Cox, who dealt sharply with the legal aspects of the proposed bills, declared by the both the labor act recently passed by the House of Representatives and the one currently before the Senate would weaken unions and thus hamper collective bargaining, "on which the major load of industrial peace must rest...
Over Georgia's Muscogee County Airport, nine miles northeast of Columbus, a twin-engined plane circled and headed in for a landing. At the controls sat Delta Air Lines operations vice president, George R. Gushing, 48, a veteran pilot. Gushing and seven other Delta men (including Legal Adviser Lindley W. Camp, 52, longtime political crony of the late Gene Talmadge) were inspecting a network of newly acquired Georgia-Texas routes...
...radio's scandalmongers committing libel when they broadcast defamatory remarks from a script-or is it just slander?* Until last week this was a wide-open legal question. Then the New York Court of Appeals provided an answer by handing down a unanimous and-to radio-chilling decision...
Finally, there is the question of the composition of the investigating committee. The Jewish Agency, sole spokesman for the Palestine Jewish community, insists that it be represented so that the Jewish case may be presented in convincing manner. On both ethical and legal grounds, the Agency should have its request granted; whether it will remains to be seen...