Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-term problem which is getting his close attention is labor's so-called Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Ball would overhaul it. He believes that jurisdictional strikes should be outlawed; that unions as well as employers should be required to bargain; that certain legal reforms are in order...
...Soviet Russia, Austria's spanking new diplomatic mission to Moscow, consisting of slim, distinguished Minister Karl Waldbrunner, Counselor Karl Braunias and a female secretary, has been in even worse case, homeless and flat broke. Reason: the Russians would not fix a legal rate for converting their schillings into rubles. The diplomats had to wash their own socks and underwear. Never sure where their next meal was coming from, they scurried from one hotel to another as bills came due. On top of it all the secretary turned out to have been pregnant when she left Vienna; after she went...
...Bridgehead. Early in the battle, he had taken a position where all of organized labor could view him, where all of organized labor would have to applaud him, whether it liked him or not. His legal position was debatable; his moral position was worse. The court had merely ordered him to postpone-until the legal questions of his coal contract could be adjudicated-an action which would do the country great injury. This was the order he had defied. The order was the first step to an injunction, a word which labor mortally hated and feared. So on the bridgehead...
...there be no hesitation upon the part of any individual member with respect to the effectuation of the policy herein defined. Complete unity of action is our sole source of strength. We will, as always, act together and await the rendition of legal and economic justice." His voice shook with exaltation: "I salute you, beside whom I have been privileged to fight...
...point at issue was one of those legal technicalities on which the fate of whole nations sometimes depends. The British Cabinet Mission had divided India's provinces, for purposes of writing the provincial constitutions, into three groups. In Group A, which comprised the bulk of British India, the Hindus would have a huge majority. Group B was the predominantly Moslem Northwest. The trouble narrowed down to Group C in the East, consisting of Bengal and Assam. Nehru said that the vote in the Assembly should be cast by provinces, which would let him take advantage...