Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late strongman Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who died in 1965, as a Stalinist who used terror to keep in power in the 1950s. The commission charged his regime with handing down sentences without trials, of murders, abusive arrests, "rude fakes and transgression of the most elementary rules of law." Thus, Dej's successor as party boss, Nicolae Ceausescu, paved the way for a purge of the late Dej's Stalinist cronies. The first to go was a onetime Ceausescu rival, ex-Police Chief Alexandru Draghici, who was purged from the party Presidium and from his post as Deputy Premier...
Aside from the recent acquisition of Popular Library, a paperback book company, Ackerman has had no publishing experience. His business is the salvation of troubled firms. A native of Rochester and a graduate of Syracuse University and Rutgers Law School, he became a partner in the New York City law firm of Cooper, Ostrin, De Varco & Ackerman in 1957, specializing in mergers and acquisitions. In 1962, he decided to try his own hand at the business. He bought controlling interest in Perfect Photo Inc., later merged it with three other firms: United Whelan Corp., a drugstore chain; Hudson National...
Violent death and women have long been an explosive mixture in mystery novels. Their effect on a court of law is often no less potent. Three recent cases...
...Miss Wall's lawyer broke into the proceedings to ask for a conference in chambers. There he told the flabbergasted judge that his client had married the prosecution's key witness; he could therefore not testify against her. Fumed the judge: "This case is one where the law can very justifiably be criticized." Still, nothing could be done. Case dismissed...
...just been gravely injured in a fall from a cargo lift on the Philadelphia waterfront, and he sent word to sue. So she dashed off-not to the hospital, but to her attorney. Suits filed on behalf of living victims, she knew, tend to be more remunerative under Pennsylvania law than suits filed by aggrieved heirs. As the injured man's wife, she was authorized to file a suit on his behalf-but only so long as he remained alive. The complaint was typed up at breakneck speed; the court clerk was called at home and asked...