Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reduced quorum of Liberal Union members voted last night to give a legal staff full power of attorney to begin action in the current HLU Film Series dispute with the University Theater and its distributors. Before the business meeting, J. William Belanger, Massachusetts CIO president, and John T. Dunlop, associate professor of Economics, discussed the Taft-Hartley...
...Ickes changed his mind. After a conference with President Roosevelt, he decided to hold lease applications and start legal action to determine ownership of the oil lands. Resolutions to assert United States ownership were introduced in Congress in 1937 and 1939 but were not passed, and the issue died down during the war. In 1947, Attorney General Tom Clark brought legal action directly against the State of California to bring the case under the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court...
...result of the Court decision is that Congress definitely has the right to dispose of the land as it sees fit. Some interesting legal controversy has, however, arisen outside the government. Since this land was not given to California in its original land grant and since the federal government does not own it, the land is claimed by 21 bands of California Indians. But the government is continuing its well established policy of ignoring Indian demands...
...request is granted, a legal staff of five Law School members directed by John L. Saltonstall, Jr. '38, a member of the Boston Bar, will receive authority to start legal action against the University Theatre and its film suppliers...
After last fortnight's sharp drop in grain prices, traders last week hoped that prices might steady. Instead, the biggest sinking spell in a year hit the Chicago grain pits at midweek. In one day, all grain futures tumbled their legal limits. In the cash markets, corn hit its lowest price since April 1945 (at Chicago, No. 2 yellow corn dropped from $1.27 a bushel to $1.17). Oats and rye also broke through the levels of OPA days...