Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tweed is a prominent New York lawyer, president of the New York City Bar Association, past director of the New York Legal Aid Society, and a trustee of the Twentieth Century Fund. He graduated from the Law School...
Public Record. As a Senator since 1938-first as a vehement, minority critic of the New Deal and later as majority boss on domestic issues-he has probably declared himself on more issues than any man in Congress. His outstanding political characteristic is his insistence on strict legal procedure. He criticized the Nürnberg trials on the grounds that they were ex post facto judgments, and therefore violations of American law. He has seldom altered his course because of public opinion. He calls himself a conservative liberal; his political trademark is: "Go Slow." He is hostile to Big Government...
...Labor and labor monopolies; against the secondary boycott, the closed shop, industry-wide bargaining. Nevertheless, it was he who first stood up and fought Harry Truman's proposal to draft striker's into the Army. His main objective in the Taft-Hartley Act was to restore the legal balance between labor and management...
...Ontario and Quebec, to meet truck and ship competition, rates are below the legal maximum. They are higher on the noncompetitive prairies, higher still over the Rockies because of a "mountain differential." The Maritimes get a 20% reduction...
Died. Robert Lee Williams, 79, Oklahoma's first chief justice (1907-09), third governor (1915-19), longtime U.S. judge (1919-37); of diabetes and a heart ailment; in Sherman, Tex. "Fighting Bob," a rough-&-tumble courtroom battler, helped draft Oklahoma's constitution (1906-07), then dominated its legal scene until his retirement...