Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neck Out. Outside the Senate, in his speeches around the nation, Jack Kennedy has held steadfastly to his independence. He appeared before the Florida Bar Association, criticized the legal profession for its "apparent indifference" to lawyers who, by the evidence before the McClellan committee, had engaged in "legal racketeering." Last spring he confronted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, criticized it for its stand against foreign...
...haled into court, fined ?2 and summarily ordered to get up ?16.0.5 in back insurance payments. "It's sheer hypocrisy!" snorted the Stopper. "The law says thieving isn't a job and is illegal. Then when it wants its cut, it says it is a job and legal enough to pay insurance on. The law's dead crooked...
Last week Zensei was ready to concede defeat. Some brothelkeepers decided to go legal by converting their establishments to "tea parlors" and "grilled chicken restaurants." One Tokyo group announced plans to replace its old row of houses with a $280,000 "amusement center" containing "game parlors" and "chess rooms." Zensei's Tokyo branch notified the city government that all girls would be fired in the next two months and helped to get other jobs. Said a surprised official: "This time they really seem to mean...
...PRIME financial question confronting the Administration is whether or not Congress should be asked to increase the national debt limit beyond its present $275 billion ceiling. The federal debt last week stood at $273,351,797,516.09, only $1.7 billion under the legal ceiling and with seven months still to go in fiscal 1958. The Treasury steadfastly maintains that it can squeeze by under the ceiling. But many Administration economists doubt it. They argue that the debt limit must be raised, not only so that the U.S. can go on paying its bills, but also because the $275 billion ceiling...
UNION STRIKE BENEFITS are tax-free gifts rather than taxable income, a federal court ruled in Milwaukee. Jury ordered Internal Revenue Service to return $108 that it assessed on $566 paid to Kohler Co. striker by United Auto Workers. Unless higher court revokes it, decision will set legal precedent affecting millions of dollars in taxes...