Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week Attorney General Frank Murphy arrived at the Green Inn, a comfortable shingled seaside hotel at Narragansett, R. I. With him were his chauffeur, his secretary, Eleanor Bumgardner, and his legal assistant, Edward G. Kemp. They registered, were assigned rooms and started up to them. It was then that the night clerk noted that Frank Murphy was so exhausted that it seemed for a moment he might not make the one-flight climb upstairs...
...this ethereal haunt there arrived one day last week Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italy's Foreign Minister, son-in-law of Il Duce. Already there were German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador to Rome, the Italian Ambassador to Berlin, sundry legal experts, advisers, retainers. They were to have lunch with the Führer...
Last week Señor Serrano Suñer won another round when Generalissimo Franco shook up the Cabinet and the Falange, now the only legal political organization in Spain. Already Minister of the Interior, Serrano Suñer became president of the policy-making Falangist Council and acquired the portfolios of Public Order, Sanitation and Health. His most potent rival within the Falange, anti-Italian, conservative Raimundo Fernández Cuesta, lost his jobs as Secretary of the Falange and Minister of Agriculture. An even more important scalp was that of Foreign Minister General Count Francisco...
...collective fields. The peasants have worked like demons on their tiny pieces of private property, and now this small fraction of Russia's agricultural land supports 13% more cows and pigs than on the collective farms. This scandalous situation became increasingly more scandalous: peasants tried to stretch their legal inch of private property into an illegal ell. Some local throwbacks actually hired comrades to work their required stint on the collective fields while they devoted all their time to their own acres...
...home plots will be replaced by land adjacent to villages, where officials can keep an eye on them. To millions of hard-working peasants this meant the loss of painfully wrought improvements. And some collective-farm managers, with a characteristically Russian excess of zeal, have confiscated all private plots, legal or not, and ejected counter-revolutionary cattle from communal pastures...