Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office in Harvard's Langdell Hall an old man wearing a green eyeshade was turning the pages of a new book. The old man looked like a cross between Owen Wister and Rudyard Kipling. His name was Roscoe Pound. The book looked heavy. Its title: Interpretations of Modern Legal Philosophies: Essays in Honor of Roscoe Pound. Dean Roscoe Pound, doing his best not to look too pleased, said, "A man is entitled to have his head swell a little over that...
Justice Frank Murphy, an eager beagle who is all heart-and-snuffles whenever the legal hunt picks up the scent of something human, sniffed out a resemblance to portal-pay cases previously decided in favor of miners. As spokesman for a 5-2 majority he sent the case back to the lower court. Picard was ordered to decide whether workers' time between punching the time clock and starting work was a trifle (which could be ignored) or substantial (which must be paid for). And, in Justice Murphy's phrase, he was to do so "in light...
...floating the billions in securities needed to finance world reconstruction. Private bankers, lukewarm at best, had now cooled to the whole project. The World Bank's prestige had fallen so low that some Manhattan bankers talked about getting the unissued securities stricken from New York State's "legal list," i.e., the list of securities in which savings banks may invest...
...employer is trying to avoid the intent of the Fair Labor Standards Act by "encouraging" workers to put in time for which there is no remuneration, he is a fair target for civil or criminal legal action. But this is not the case in most of the $5,000,000,000 worth of suits now pending. Portal-to portal pay was something which had not occurred to either employer or employee. When the Mount Clemens Case opened a legal loophole for extracting wages above the amount agreed upon in good faith, labor, en masse, leaped to widen...
Added to any legal furry over the base, the danger of the ice melting and consigning Little America and future neighboring communities to an Atlantis like fate in Davy Jones's locker is at least a possibility. Meanwhile, the U. S. acknowledges the Autaretic claims of no other government, says the professor