Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, a clam digger named Cornelius J. Broere conceived a novel legal theory: that towing a floating corpse to shore is as much a salvage operation as towing an abandoned ship to safety. He filed a libel action under the provisions of Admiralty Law for $2,133 discovered in the pockets of a dead man he fished out of Great South...
...There is only one way to stop it," suggested one Philadelphia pitcher. "Make the spit ball legal again." Said Schoolboy Rowe with a straight face: "Oh, that's a dirty habit...
...private life is now a settled matron of 18). In the film, Shirley goes to Mexico City to meet, marry and spend a honeymoon with G.I. Guy Madison, who is on leave from the Canal Zone. They have a hard time finding each other and, tied up by legal complications, an even harder time getting married. The hardest time of all is had by Franchot Tone, a U.S. consulate workhorse who is repeatedly required to help them out. In the course of getting helped, Miss Temple transfers her attentions briefly to Mr. Tone, and nearly wrecks his romance with Mexican...
...would not break Big Labor's monopoly, but it would force Big Labor to recruit its members by persuasion rather than by Government fiat. It would not put any further economic risk into strikes, but it would make it more difficult to call them. It would try, by legal means, to make labor responsible-which it had not been under the free-&-easy Wagner...
...lawyer. Baltimore-born Thurgood Marshall, counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, pleaded the case of Herman Marion Sweatt against the University of Texas (TIME, March 24). The case was now clearly not just another attempt to get "equal facilities" for Negroes, but a major legal assault on educational segregation. Both sides recognized it as the test for similar laws in 17 states...