Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists and Congregationalists announced that they hope to unite in setting up a "Protestant Center" to house their separate national headquarters. In New York's state legislature a bill was introduced to provide legal machinery for a solution to the ecclesiastical housing problem, but approval of final plans by the churches is likely to take five to ten years...
...gong rang, signaling, the start of trading in the Chicago Board of Trade. Half an hour later, the pits were a pandemonium of roaring voices and flapping arms. Selling orders had flooded the exchange. At 10:15, traders yelled "Basement!" which meant that May corn had fallen 8?, the legal limit for one day. Within the next few minutes, May oats had dropped their limit of 6?, May wheat its 10? limit. It was the first day of a break in commodity prices which stirred the market as nothing had in two whooping years. The New York Stock Exchange slumped...
...began his Washington career 15 years ago in the legal department of Henry Wallace's AAA. Wallace had to bounce him and some 20 other AAA employees because too many people complained that the group was trying to change the world too fast. Pressman bobbed up again in Harry Hopkins' WPA, then in Rexford Tugwell's Rural Resettlement Administration. In 1936 John Lewis, then playing footie with the leftists in labor, made him counsel of the rebel C.I.O...
When Lee Pressman, the C.I.O.'s sharply tailored legal eagle, walked out of Phil Murray's Washington office-and out of his job-one day last week, he was lugubriously blowing his nose and drying his eyes. Behind him, Phil Murray was so overcome with emotion that he could not even step outside for a news picture...
...bell clanged on the Paris Bourse and a trader cried: "Buying dollars for 314." Another trader nodded: "I sell $25,000." With this simple transaction, France last week opened its first free legal money market in dollars in eight years. There were few sellers. The Bank of France, virtually the only buyer, bought a mere $150,000 the first day. By week's end, the dollar had inched down from 314 francs to 304, slightly under the black market price...