Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense Attorney Tom Wofford objected strenuously. The statements, he claimed, might be legal evidence against their individual makers, but not against other defendants. The statements had not been made under oath; the defense charged that they had been obtained under duress...
...officials. The 100 girls he wanted for his mill must be Roman Catholics and unmarried virgins. (An Army chaplain talked him out of the second requirement.) Once he got them to St. Georges, he promised, he would house them at Le Foyer, teach them about Canada, pay them the legal minimum of 20? an hour. He plans to spend $42,500 to fly the girls to Canada. "I can't wait for boats," says Ludger Dionne...
...husband must approve, and need no urging from either the physician or from each other; 3) the practice must not become available to all who ask for it-the doctor must know donor and recipient well; 4) fees must be kept low, to eliminate mercenary motives; 5) the legal father, not the biological father, must be listed on the birth certificate; 6) signed papers must be kept to a minimum-or, better still, eliminated...
...refuse to let my work be interfered with by such legal folderol. If a person entering the practice of medicine were always considering whether he'd be sued or not, he'd be nothing but a pussyfooter. I have no criminal intent. The woman and her husband have no criminal intent. To me it is a decent and humane act, and I stand...
...marbled, high-walled hearing room of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, the life-&-death trial of the nation's biggest lending agency dragged on into its fifth week. The question whether the powerful RFC should be continued beyond its legal deadline of June 30 has revolved chiefly around the way RFC had handled its biggest railroad deal, an $80 million loan to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The issue-and a first-rate ruckus-was raised by gaunt, balding Cassius Marcellus Clay, an ex-official of both RFC and the B. & O. The loan, said he, was part...