Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shouts of angry mobs. Trouble started over the fact that Berlin's city railways and elevated lines, which are controlled by the Russians, paid their workers in East zone marks, although most live in the Western sectors. Those workers wanted their wages in West marks (the only legal tender where they live, and four times the value of the East marks). Last week, 16,000 workers of the non-Communist Independent Railway Workers Union walked...
Last week the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue admitted that such transactions were legal and that the number of people who had taken advantage of them was "way up in the thousands." It hoped before long to find some way to plug the leak of U.S. tax revenue...
...December 12, Fast was refused twice more. The New York Board of Education refused to let him speak at the Midwood High School, across the street from Brooklyn College. And at Hunter College the Dean, over P.C.A. protests, turned Fast down. Both bans were based on Fast's legal status...
...When a man is turned down for security reasons, he has a legal right to a hearing and appeal," Edelman said last night. "No one ever told me that I was rejected because of this. That's what caused all the trouble...
...after five years of private practice. Quick to catch on, he was named assistant secretary within three weeks, secretary in less than a year and a half. Avery, who was often in trouble with New Deal bureaus, soon found that he had plenty of use for a keen legal mind. Ball, a big (6 ft. 2½ in.) man with a smooth courtroom manner, saw Avery safely through his many scrapes with NLRB-including the one that led to the U.S. Army's wartime eviction of Avery and Government seizure of his plant...