Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother who is determined that her son should achieve social success. Cagney is less amply helped by Virginia Mayo. Miss Mayo alternates her finely-built presence between an un-Johnston office night-gown and a turtle-neck sweater, between Cagney and the cops and his cohorts, depending how the legal wind is blowing...
...anonymous assistants." In 1941 Roosevelt appointed him to the seventh U.S. circuit court of appeals. As a judicial interpreter of the Constitution, he seemed to tone down some of his ideas and he established a reputation as a competent and liberal-minded judge, if no legal world-shaker...
...House. The rising St. Laurent could afford a big house. Most of his legal business was unspectacular (company reorganizations and civil lawsuits), but profitable. He made a name by unraveling business snarls and working out compromises that satisfied opposing parties. It was a time when big British and U.S. companies were coming to Quebec to develop the province's timber, mineral and hydroelectric resources, and the biggest of them were St. Laurent's clients. He was regularly on the go (sometimes at a fee of $200 a day) pleading cases before the Supreme Court in Ottawa and the Privy Council...
...green-carpeted office in the East Block last week, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent pondered the extremes that faced him and his country. The fine legal mind, famed in Canadian courts for its ability to arrive at sense-making compromises, was at work trying to find middle way. St. Laurent was confident that it could be found. "We have been up against tough situations before," he said. "The Western World has always managed somehow...
...church, must demand the rights to freedom for herself alone ... As to other religions, the Church will . . . require that by legitimate means they shall not be allowed to propa gate false doctrine. Consequently, in a state where the majority of the people are Catholic, the Church will require that legal existence be denied to error . . . The Church cannot blush for her own want of tolerance, as she asserts it in principle and applies it in practice...