Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruling that there was "hardly a scintilla" of evidence that Murray had misled his customers, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision. Despite the court's action, Murray Kram, 28, felt that the mail business was getting too uncomfortable. But he already had a new, eminently legal career in mind: aiding churches as a professional fund raiser, at 15% of the gross take...
...suite in Chicago's Ambassador West Hotel for 48 hours straight last week. Inside, a dozen high-priced lawyers barely paused to refresh. When they did pause at last, patent-challenger Zenith Radio Corp. had finally pinned heavyweight champ Radio Corp. of America after eleven years of legal jujitsu. In the biggest antitrust recovery in history, Zenith settled for $10 million in its $61.7 million suit against...
...hired Lawyer Adlai Stevenson to get an injunction against U.S. District Judge Michael Igoe on the charge that he was biased. Stevenson lost in the U.S. Supreme Court. Igoe finally set the trial for last week. By that time Zenith had spent $2,000,000 on legal fees and gathering evidence and RCA $5,000,000. But the case did not come to trial, apparently because Zenith had gathered too much legal ammunition to fire...
...only assurance I can give you is that the federal Constitution will be upheld by me by every legal means at my command . . . You and other state officials-as well as the National Guard, which is of course uniformed, armed and partially sustained by the Federal Government-will, I am sure, give full cooperation to the U.S. district court...
...cleared six times in six years by State Department loyalty boards. In 1951 he was summarily dismissed by Secretary of State Dean Acheson after the Civil Service Commission's Loyalty Review Board found "reasonable doubt" as to his loyalty. _ Last June the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling on a legal point and not on loyalty, held that the Secretary of State had exceeded his authority in dismissing Service; the U.S. District Court in Washington thereupon ordered him reinstated in the foreign service. On his new assignment he will be paid at least $11,850 a year to help plan...