Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Suspicion. That was Joe's story and he stuck to it. There was some suspicion that there was more to the whole business than met the eye. Lewis was anxious to get out of a legal box. So far, he had disregarded a court order to send his miners back to work. He was due to appear before Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough and explain why he should not be held in contempt. Goldsborough was the man who, a year ago, had slapped him and his union with a $3,510,000 fine (later reduced...
...years' service, who retired after May 28, 1946. Lewis had wanted to give $100 pensions to all miners over 60 with 20 years' service, no matter when they quit. Van Horn had never made any proposal; he had simply maintained that Lewis' plan was not legal and could never be supported on the 10? royalty which the operators are required to pay on every ton of coal mined...
...strange, unexplained announcement the Student Government offered instead there were several questions implied. From a strictly legal point of view Student Government officers were on shaky ground or no ground...
...effect, then, the officers of Student Government simply ignored the evident legal aspects of their decision, which meant that they had conducted their vote under false pretenses. They sacrificed legality in a blunt way for expediency...
...District Judge Frederick A. Crafts of Waltham will hear the case of Poindexter v. Prosser. Professor Prosser has retained Professor Edmund M. Morgan, Harvard's expert on evidence, to defend him. Poindexter will have six other students and two recent Harvard Law School graduates among his battery of legal talent. In the preliminary pleadings, Plaintiff Poindexter cited as one of his legal authorities a textbook known as Prosser on Torts. Pooh-poohed Defendant Prosser: "A very inadequate book I once wrote...