Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home-rule charter, he has become one of the most powerful municipal dictators in the U.S. But last week there were signs that Democrat Stapleton might be unhorsed. For the first time in a decade he had a tough opponent: wealthy, Yale-trained Republican Quigg Newton, a onetime legal secretary to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who had the backing of a growing reform movement...
...Canada's frigid Fort Churchill, on an inspection tour as chairman of the U.S.-Canada defense board, Fiorello La-Guardia slipped into a furry hat and posed for cameramen (see cut). Then he hurled a $500,000 legal snowball at the New York World-Telegram. He disliked some recent editorials on his mayoralty, he said, and was suing for libel...
Earlier in the day, Wirtz told newsmen that the Supreme Court decision against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers had almost no significance beyond the specific legal facts involved. He admitted, however, that the State Courts might take advantage of the apparent right to issue injunctions while they decided whether a strike was legal...
...Deal, he thought, had lined up on organized labor's side and had become an out-&-out partisan of a single segment of U.S. society. The Norris-LaGuardia Act had put labor pretty well beyond the reach of legal injunctions. The National Labor Relations Act insured labor the right to organize. The NLRA in itself was not pernicious. But various interpretations of it plunged boards and courts into a swamp of contradictions. Both acts disarmed management, a fact which labor leaders were able to exploit to the full...
...defendant in Erie, Pa. County Court was charged with black magic (in the modern legal phrase: "taking money under false pretenses" in the practice of "the healing arts...