Word: legalism
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Spanish Heritage. The concept of a wife sharing equally in her husband's earnings is a legal heritage from the Spanish and French settlers of the Southwest. The rest of the country followed the English common law, which holds that the husband is the lord and master, and as such owns all family property. But in recent years, common-law states have seen many of their prosperous citizens move to community-property states. In the last year, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nebraska and Oregon have switched in self-defense to the community-property concept...
...Union's executive committee had authorized the endorsement on October 17, but it was not until yesterday that the regional office of the American Federation of Labor informed the University group that backing of local office-seekers was legal...
Judging from past experience, his legal vulnerability is not so great, Several years ago, on the inspiration of a similar Petrillo ban, Congress passed the Lea Bill, which forbade the forcing of a radio station licensee to hire any more employees than necessary for the running of his station. The Act was judged unconstitutional by an Hlinois District Court in 1946 on the grounds of being indefinite, discriminatory, and a violation of the thirteenth amendment forbidding involuntary servitude. Petrillo might possibly be stopped in the courts either by an appeal from this decision, by an application of the Taft-Hartley...
...government need is for qualified specialists in the following positions: administrative technician, archeologist, astronomer, bacteriologist, chemist, economist, engineer, geographer, legal assistant, librarian, mathematician, metallurgist, patent examiner, physical, psychologist, social science analyst, and statistician...
...Their legal gyrations were merely the formalizing of joint instruction in the Yard "where separate instruction would be wasteful of faculty personnel." The Radcliffe Board of Trustees and the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers made the announcement...