Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There seems no legal time limit yet to the TV commercial. Kelvinator Kitchen runs for 15 minutes. Since all the plot activity centers around a refrigerator, a range and a home freezer (all Kelvinators), it amounts to a straight 15-minute plug. The barker in Texaco Star Theater continually fondles Texaco products, performs before a curtain picturing a Texaco gas station, and is supported by a close-harmony quartet wearing Texaco uniforms...
...another round with Financier Cyrus Eaton. During the four-month investigation of his ole in the Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s $10 million underwriting fiasco (TIME, May 24), Eaton had tried to slow up SEC by ridiculing, cajoling, pleading and threatening, had finally gone into a clinch with a legal gimmick involving lawyer-client privilege. Last week SEC decided to try for a knockout. It ordered a hearing next month to decide whether Eaton's Otis & Co. should be allowed to stay in business...
...onetime key worker for the War Production Board), and Charles Kramer (onetime researcher for Florida's Senator Claude Pepper and West Virginia's Harley Kilgore)-were among those previously named by Courier Elizabeth Bentley TIME, Aug. 9). Chambers had other names: Lee Pressman, onetime New Deal legal eagle, later C.I.O. counsel and currently one of Henry Wallace's left-hand men; Nathan Witt, onetime secretary for the National Labor Relations Board; Henry Collins (ex-Agriculture Department); Donald Hiss, who left the State Department...
...still expects her husband to support her is nothing but a high-class prostitute," also went into the financial side of his marriage: "She is trying to blackmail me. I know the defendant to be a money-mad extortioner." And anyway, he added, neither of their Mexican divorces was legal, and so he figures that he is still the lawful wedded husband...
Chatting in her column about one thing & another, Eleanor Roosevelt reminisced about the "Hoover depression," a phrase minted by the Democrats, widely circulated by her husband, and used as legal tender by a whole generation. Wrote she: "If only we can avoid a repetition of the depression that culminated in Mr. Hoover's administration, we will be very fortunate. This depression, of course, had nothing to do with President Hoover's policies, but was the result of after-war activities by certain groups...