Word: legality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Craving guidance, octogenarian Governor Dickinson first imported from Charlotte two cronies: Dr. Henry Allen Moyer, his personal physician; Emerson R. Boyles, old-line political warhorse who had served under Governor Fitzgerald as his legal adviser. Dr. Moyer's duties include protecting frail, doddery Mr. Dickinson's health, driving with him back & forth to the Governor's Charlotte farm (20 miles from Lansing), where Mr. Dickinson putters in his garden. Dr. Moyer also spends a good deal of time behind a newspaper in the gubernatorial office, occasionally offering his patient nuggets of statesman'y wisdom ("I have...
Meanwhile, the underworlds of a dozen cities quaked as virtuous Bachelors Murphy and Hoover flew back east. For some unexplained reason even the local law was being enforced in Chicago.* As abstaining Frank Murphy winged toward Chicago it became harder to buy a drink after the legal closing hour than it ever had been during prohibition...
...American Federation of Hosiery Workers (TIME, April 10). The Apex strike was a sitdown, which the U. S. Supreme Court has declared illegal. If suits like Tom Girdler's can extend the anti-trust laws to cover other strikes (which are legal in principle) Labor will have suffered a blow, all but undoing such pro-Labor legislation as the Wagner Act. Last week in appealing the Apex verdict, a union attorney announced that the U. S. Department of Justice has agreed to intervene on Labor's side. And John Lewis last fortnight set up a committee to work...
After a few hours' sleep in Munich, Edouard Daladier flew back to Paris a worn, tired, nervous, scared man. In the plane he stiffened his courage by downing a few more pastis (a legal absinthe drink) than usual. As he alighted from the plane at Le Bourget, Paris airport, and saw a big crowd waiting, he grabbed the arm of an aide, exclaimed in apprehension: "My God, where are the Mobile Guards...
Changes in instruction of third-year students in the Law School, emphasizing instruction in the organization and presentation of legal materials together with increased opportunities for seminar study, will be put into effect this next academic year, Dean James M. Landis announced today...