Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sale of intoxicating liquors became legal in Kansas for the first time in 69 years...
Last week the Hiss-Chambers case was formally brought before a bar of justice in a Manhattan federal courtroom. In a strictly legal sense, only Alger Hiss was on trial. But in a larger sense both men were equally involved, and the court was simply a well-lighted arena in which they could fight their duel before their fellow citizens with weapons provided...
...long as the Communist Party in the U. S. is a legal political party, affiliation with that Party in and of itself should not be regarded as a justifiable reason for exclusion from the academic profession...
...wonders why David E. Lilienthal persists in serving his government. From the time he left a private legal practice to head of the TVA right down through his service as head of the AEC he has been subjected to repeated attacks on his personal integrity and ability. In all this time neither personal enemies nor the private power interests have been able to discredit him or his work. Two years ago, in the noisy struggle over his appointment as AEC chairman, his intellectual values were challenged by Senator McKellar and his fellows--and Lilienthal's reply was a classic statement...
...should be the standard for hiring or firing a teacher. A political standard is irrelevant; it is dangerous; it is a repudiation of the traditional American principle that in individual be judged for what he is, and not for what he belongs to. The communist Party is still a legal organization...