Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another version of how the hoped-for settlement was sought. He blamed Einiger Mills, Inc., a Goldfine competitor, for prompting FTC complaints. A lawyer named Lester Lazarus, continued "Mack" Goldfine, had done some of the work for Einiger. The Goldfines solved this problem by hiring Lazarus for the Goldfine legal team. The lawyer then went to work on settling the FTC complaint. Lazarus, said young Goldfine, made several trips to Washington, where he entertained FTC people "at least a couple of times a week." Concluded Mack Goldfine: "You can't see people a couple of times a week...
...Senate, jogged by the Goldfine hearings, dusted off and passed without debate an innocuous year-old House resolution setting forth a ten-point code of ethics for federal officials. A "sense of Congress" resolution with no legal force, the code urges officials to be loyal, hardworking, fair, clean as a hound's tooth...
...Chicago Restaurant Association, where Strang sought help in his fight against the union demand for payoff, turned out to be tied to the mob through Lawyer Abraham Teitelbaum, who secretly passed Strang's $2,240 payment for legal fees directly to the union...
...main argument for keeping the act on the books is that defense equipment has become so complex, and changes so fast, that past production and cost experience are not enough to forecast and avoid exorbitant profits. The Government, say renegotiation advocates, needs a watchdog agency to take a long legal second look at every major defense contract. While contractors go along with this, they argue that renegotiation decisions are so capricious that what are considered normal profits for one contractor are called excessive for another...
Fringe Benefit. In Birmingham, England, a transport workers' union announced a new service for its 6,000 members: free legal aid in getting divorces...