Word: facto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concept based solely on "peace and security," not on "law and justice." He took the unpopular position, as so many of his positions were, of denouncing the Nürnberg trials, which "violate the fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute ... In these trials we have accepted the Russian idea of the purpose of trials-government policy and not justice...
...Constitution . . . prohibits passage of an ex post facto act." To try the Rosenbergs for crimes committed in 1944 and 1945 under the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 would be an ex post facto procedure...
...Farouk's empty palaces. Two overcrowded universities wanted to occupy them as classrooms, but one Cairo newspaper argued: let the palaces become museums like Versailles, so that the people might see what lavish living went on near some of the world's slummiest slums. The new de facto ruler of Egypt, General Mohammed Naguib, and his hand-picked Premier, Aly Maher, decreed the abolition of the titles of bey and pasha (roughly equivalent to sir and lord). "Call me Hadretkom [mister]," urged an aging pasha on hearing the news...
...Vatican issue." A for the Episcopalians, there is no chance of a merger so long as they insist that Methcdist ministers must be first re-ordaine by Episcopal bishops. Said Methodist Coi son: "If the Episcopalians want union, a they need to do is declare John Wesley de facto bishop...
...retrospect, Matt Ridgway's generals and admirals seemed to have proceeded on the assumption that only "inexorable military pressure" would drive the Reds to make peace. They had tied themselves in knots trying to avoid giving the enemy what they scathingly called a "de facto cease-fire." Washington had interposed a plan based on a different estimate of the Reds-measuring their desire for an armistice by the fact that they had agreed to negotiate in the first place, and by the large concession the Reds had made in giving up the 38th parallel as a demarcation line...