Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since they were confirmed by the state senate. But the processes of government began to succumb to a sort of galloping schizophrenia. The 200 Georgia banks which handle state money didn't know which governor to recognize; and one-the Fulton National Bank of Atlanta-prepared to institute legal action to find out who was really...
...seemed doubtful that there would be any clear-cut legal decision for months, but at week's end an Atlanta judge named Virlyn B. Moore expressed positive if indirect disapproval of the present state of affairs. A Negro bigamist arraigned in his court cried: "I caint see where it's wrong for a man to have two wives when it's all right for a state to have two governors." Judge Moore just gave him twelve months in the cooler...
...suits for back pay rose to billions, the C.I.O.'s legal counsel, Lee Pressman, admitted that the whole business had got out of hand.* Cried he: "They are fantastic. Local lawyers have gone hog-wild. Suits for those incredible sums have fanned the flames of anti-unionism...
Political refugees from the Soviet Union should be granted the same legal rights of asylum as those from Spain or any other place, and it is time for the governments of Europe and elsewhere to recognize this right, according to Michael Karpovich, professor of History...
...statement to the CRIMSON Saturday, Karpovich called for legal action by the victor nations which will allow Russian emigres who have not been found guilty of crimes against their own government to remain safely in the country to which they have fled. This action would probably have to be made by international agreement, he said, and might be a job for the United Nations...