Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showed they had. But Johnson offered affidavits from the same people, in which they swore that Stevenson's men had intimidated them into making their charges. The committee voted, 29 to 28, to include the protested votes and certify Johnson as the winner. Coke Stevenson stalked out, started legal moves to keep Johnson's name off the ballot. He threatened to take his fraud charges to the U.S. Senate to prevent Johnson from being seated...
...York, bought a $30,000 house in suburban Mt. Vernon and started running for Congress as an American Labor Party candidate from Brooklyn. He spent his spare time helping mastermind Henry Wallace's campaign for the presidency. But last week he presented a bill for his first legal assignment from the C.I.O. It presumably insured him against ever getting another...
Aided by a high-powered legal battery, the nationalists prepared to go to court this week to seek a writ of habeas corpus to halt the deportation. But the federal government, which has full power to kick out anyone it pleases, would have the last word. Only an order-in-council, passed by the Dominion cabinet, could save De Bernonville...
...AFRA (American Federation of Radio Artists). When he refused to pay a $1 assessment in 1944, arguing that it was for political purposes, AFRA forced DeMille from the air. Since a majority of the union membership had approved the assessment, the Supreme Court upheld AFRA. Armed with a new legal weapon-the Taft-Hartley Act Act-DeMille is confidently returning to the fray...
...AFRA (American Federation of Radio Artists). When he refused to pay a $1 assesment in 1944, arguing that it was for political purposes. AFRA forced DeMille from the air. Since a majority of the union membership had approved the assesment, the Supreme Court upheld AFRA. Armed with a ew legal weapon-the Taft-Hartley Act-DeMille is confidentaly returning to the fray...