Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Local Interest. In rural North Carolina, 2,068 brides & grooms waited & waited while the state supreme court weighed the legal status of the justice of the peace who had married them...
Last week McHugh and his union found they had run hard aground on a submerged legal rock. The man that put them there was State Attorney General Clarence A. Barnes. Barnes, at 64, still has the bearing (and the crew haircut) of a Yale athlete*(class of '04), still thoughtfully putts golf balls around his office when mulling over a problem. Twice married and the father of nine children (the oldest, 40, the youngest, two), he has had a distinguished career as a lawyer and a militant Republican. His bill requiring labor unions to account publicly for their funds...
There was no doubt left that the C.I.O. and A.F.L. meant to fight a bitter-end battle. Phil Murray put his signature to a 41-page document listing legal loopholes for C.I.O. lawyers to crawl through. Old Bill Green announced that the A.F.L. was planning a national work stoppage on Election Day in 1948, to get out the vote against the Congressmen who had voted for the Taft-Hartley bill...
...public-relations effort, offered night baseball fans a dinner at Boston's staid Somerset Hotel, a seat at the game and cab rides to and from the ball park-all for $4.50. The corporation counsel for the District of Columbia said that it is legal for a minor to drink in capital bars so long as he does not order the drink, pay for it, or have it set in front of him by a tavern owner or waiter. He added: "For a child to drink with his parents is the greatest safeguard against drunkenness that I know...
Cream of the Business School's softball duffers, The Chumps, were mathematically doped yesterday as a certainty to test the teeth of their Law School equivalent, the Legal Beagles; on the home sandlot this Saturday...