Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the weather offering stiffer competition than the opposition of Lawrence Academy could muster, the Yardling nine yesterday managed to squeeze in the legal ball game limit and come out on top, 6 to 2. Today at 3 o'clock they face New Prep on Soldiers Field, while the Jayvees meet the Tufts seconds...
...permit the union shop only with the employer's blessing. These and other measures are considered necessary to trim labor's "monopoly." This line of argument overlooks the fact that while organized labor trebled its ranks under the protection of the Wagner and Norris-LaGuardia acts, violence and extra-legal actions have been dropped from the arsenals of those unions that can approach the conference table with bargaining power approximately equal to that of management...
...next day, as a private citizen, De Gaulle spoke more explicitly to a packed square before Strasbourg's City Hall. He cried: "It is time that a grouping or rally [rassemblement] of the French people is organized, which, within the legal framework, will be able to cause ... the profound reform of the state...
...women had queued up outside the new bars, but when they got inside, they seemed ill at ease. It was plain that in sedate Toronto, where last week, for the first time in 31 years,* it became legal to drink hard liquor in public, the people had forgotten how it was done...
...passport, and traveling by way of Portugal, Spain and Berlin. She had never sung for the Germans, nor for the quislings. Her only wartime concerts were in neutral Sweden and Switzerland. Her husband died last year in a hospital while awaiting trial for collaboration. The Norwegian Government had no legal charges against her, and coldly gave her a passport. Norwegians felt a decided chill toward their great singer, who during the occupation had chosen to enjoy a comfortable life in their midst...