Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...table, nervously eyeing the eleven swords, sat an undistinguished, heavy-set man named Joseph Silverman Jr. who had made his everlasting fortune buying & selling surplus Army equipment. Also in front of the table, eyeing the eleven swords even more nervously, sat Colonel Joseph I. McMullen, long time legal adviser to the Assistant Secretary of War. Opening was a general court-martial of Colonel McMullen on charges of having accepted bribes from Silverman...
This was decidedly a red herring. The Seiyukai Party, knowing the militarist-dominated Cabinet to be against them, insinuated in their speeches that the Government had not sufficiently rejected, outlawed and blasted the teaching of famed Dr. Tatsukichi Minobe. As a professor of the Imperial University at Tokyo, this legal savant some 30 years ago produced three books on the Japanese Imperial Constitution and the status of the Emperor. That status, in one word, is divine. Dr. Minobe made the mistake of adorning it with other words and blaspheming His Majesty to the extent of writing that...
...perched on a chair to receive autograph hounds. Young Felix was scheduled to play in San Francisco soon afterwards. That concert never came off because his parents were at odds and his teacher raised a fracas. Victim was the boy violinist, a pawn now involved in a bitter legal controversy. Often he has been told that he is greater than Heifetz or Kreisler...
Because German legal technicalities could be satisfied in no other way, a most unusual sentence was imposed last week in Schwerin, the home town of the new Nazi Martyr "Saint Gustloff." The prisoner, one Adolph Seefeld, was sentenced by Schwerin's methodical court to be placed in "preventive detention" indefinitely, to serve 15 years in jail, to be castrated and to be beheaded, this last sentence to be carried out first. Aged 65, Schwerin's sinful Seefeld had killed a dozen young boys in the course of his orgies...
...that the refund should go. Many processors sold processed com modities on a price-plus-tax basis which was not itemized. It would be hard to prove how much of the processing tax had been passed on. To keep the refund melon all to themselves, processors relied upon a legal precedent growing out of Wartime excise taxes. In 1918 Congress passed a law taxing soft drinks 10%. A cider manufacturer paid the tax under protest, maintaining that cider could not properly be called a soft drink. Eventually the courts agreed with him, and the Treasury returned his payments. Then...