Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more imposing than the statistics was the fact that the case had only begun. It would be months before U.S. justice rendered its final verdict. Legal questions posed by the trial engaged lawyers, lawmakers, journalists. Far more would have to be decided than the fate of eleven sworn and cynical enemies of U.S. democracy. Enemies though they were, they had forced U.S. democracy to make a worried examination of itself. Men asked: Wasn't the very trial a violation of the basic rights of U.S. citizens...
...there he would hear one of the world's finest orchestras, some of the best singers, and see good theater in a city which lost only its railway station in the war. Openly buying at the blackmarket exchange rate, he might not notice that lemons are unobtainable because the legal rate of 10 schillings to the dollar is prohibitive to Italian exporters. He would not realize that Austria is a thoughfare for refugees from Eastern Europe. He would not know that hired man working sixty hours a week can spend a month's salary on a pair of shoes...
Tomorrow is a legal holiday in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Chief Alvin R. Randall of the University police has alerted his entire force in anticipation of the 53rd invasion of Cambridge by Dartmouth hordes...
Dean Wesley A. Sturges of Yale Law School presented the case for the small, progressive legal institution at an almost capacity Langdell Court Room last night...
Speaking at the Law School Forum's "Legal Education at Yale," Sturges asserted that large schools "subordinate opportunity and flexibility" to large scale instruction which creates "stereotyped performance" and competition for grades...