Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legal career was mainly defending murderers and bandits and frightening district magistrates with his caustic tongue. One magistrate, hearing that Patel was expanding his practice, moved his court to a town out of Patel's reach. In later years Gandhi found in Patel "motherly qualities" that eyes less inspired than the Mahatma's never saw. Today, Patel is coldly pleased when his enemies call him "the Iron Dictator" and "Herr Vallabhbhai." Enemies and friends tell an anecdote of his criminal law days. He had just put his wife in a Bombay hospital, returned to Ahmedabad to argue...
...General Marshall was challenging every U.S. party-liner and most U.S. "liberals." It was also a warning to Chiang to divorce himself from the die-hards of the Kuomintang. Above all, it meant that U.S. policy, unsuccessful as it had been so far, would still be geared to the legal Government of China...
...great political courage; he is no respecter of sacred cows. In the middle of the campaign last fall, he attacked the legal and moral Tightness of the Nurnberg trials-to the deep embarrassment of his party. A speech which he delivered at the Yale Engineering Club last spring was characteristic of him. In that brief address he attacked...
Acting on legal advice that Parkhurst's civil right's were being violated, the CRIMSON prepared to petition the Federal District Court for a writ of permission to interrogate Parkhurst...
...Clay, heeding an investigating committee's advice that he was "encouraging the development of a secondary currency which threatens to become a primary currency," ordered an end to cigaret trading at the barter center by mid-January. Last week G.I.s and Berliners scurried to make their last legal trades before the deadline. But Clay had left one loophole; he had considered it impractical to ban importation of cigarets by mail. While that source remained open, cigarets would continue to be Germany's currency...