Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During his seven months in jail Dr. Niemoller had access to theological and legal tomes, brought to his trial twelve thick volumes of notes and defense arguments he had prepared. On the first two days 42 witnesses were called, and reputedly in Berlin there are almost an indefinite number of pious Germans, wealthy folk or members of the fighting services, ready to testify that Martin Niemoller is no traitor but a hero of the Fatherland and a martyr of the Church. If he wins acquittal it will be by the 'same indomitable, single-handed fighting methods that caused...
Napoleon I decreed the Code which today is still the basis of French law, and the Emperor made no bones about saddling French women with various legal disabilities of which many a virile soldier would approve.* Last week several of these shackles were struck off by a bill which originated in the Senate, was passed into law by the Chamber. It did not give French women the vote, did cancel at one stroke the network of laws under which a French wife has been almost as much under her husband's authority as though she were a minor child...
...three got hastily into their clothes and were taken to Philadelphia's City Hall. Dixie's bail set a Philadelphia record: $300,000. Next day, as legal haggling about extradition began, detectives let Miss Dare and Mr. Davis have luncheon together. A tray was sent in from a restaurant nearby...
Then abruptly the action was settled out of court. Rumor had it that Captain Cunningham-Reid had secured a "handsome settlement," and his wife also paid the legal costs...
Last week a Chicago judge reluctantly used the old Holmes decision, only precedent in U. S. jurisprudence on this phase of the legal status of fetuses, to deny $100,000 damages to a Mrs. Theresa Joller Smith, who had sued Dr. Albert E. Luckhardt and Radiologist Isador Simon Trostler. Thirteen years ago, she claimed, Dr. Luckhardt diagnosed a lump in her abdomen as a tumor and the radiologist treated her with X-rays. The "tumor" turned out to be a baby whose head the X-rays had caused to harden unduly soon. Result was an imbecile who lived until last...