Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawyer Joseph A. Padway, barrel-shaped and bull-voiced, had taken up the morning with his arguments for the defense. The presence of Padway, A.F.L.'s brightest legal light, gave John much inward satisfaction. The A.F.L. hierarchy might hate and fear Lewis for the way he had assaulted them in the past, but they had to come to his support on an issue like this. Padway was the big opening gun in the battery of defense...
...that will occupy an important page in America's labor history and also in legal history. Goldsborough said the case was "unprecedented...
...years of labor wars John Lewis has taken on all comers: federal attorneys, industry's smartest corporation lawyers, U.S. Presidents. In 1919 he was cold-conked but he has been fighting ever since. This week, in one of his toughest legal battles, he faced new opponents...
...Clark, 47, tall, tireless but untried U.S. Attorney General who is up against his first big test. His prime legal asset: reluctance to file suits unless he is sure he can win them. A better than average student and athlete at the University of Texas, well-to-do, Dallas-born Tom Clark married a Texas coed, won every case he tried as Dallas's district attorney, became a protege of Senator Tom Connally. A dyed-in-the-wool, glad-handing Democrat, he joined the Department of Justice...
...woman trouble there'll be Steve's secretary, a tasty Samoan dish named Feeta Feeta. Harder to handle will be Copper Calhoon, "not exactly a good girl, yet within the legal limits. She's the daughter of a Wall Street wolf and just as tough as her old man. It's much easier to make a gal a baddie than a goodie. My plots are complicated. You've got to read it every day so that you'll know what happens. Make it so they can't stand...