Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President conant further pointed out that this report dealt with judgments as to sound policy and did not attempt to discuss legal and precedural aspects of the appointment and possible dismissal of teachers in schools and colleges...
...partner, Philip Steptoe, a shy, scholarly wizard on briefs, was the office legal eagle. Hustling Louis Johnson made friends and drummed up business. Between them, they made an unbeatable combination. The firm of Steptoe & Johnson began branching out-to Charleston and on to Washington...
...Johnson's legal mind there seemed to be a slight, nagging doubt about the propriety of a shift from Democratic moneyman to Secretary of Defense. Not long ago he told a few friends of his talk with Harry Truman. "I told the President," Johnson explained, "that I felt I had disqualified myself for any federal appointment." But Forrestal and the President "insisted" and "I had no choice ... I accepted the position, tough as I knew it was going...
Robert Butler, Ambassador to Cuba. Butler is a St. Paul shipbuilder, banker and construction man, and a longtime Democratic moneyman. Appointed Ambassador to Australia in 1946, he was moved to Cuba in 1948, served as a member of Johnson's fund-raising committee. He gave the legal maximum, $5,000. Other contributors from the diplomatic service: former Ambassador to Brazil William Pawley ($5,000); Ambassador to Argentina James Bruce and wife ($4,000) ; Ambassador to Canada Laurence A. Steinhardt and daughter ($10,000); EGA Ambassador W. Averell Harriman ($5,000); former Under Secretary Will Clayton and wife...
...khaki, Tacho returned to his dusty capital to a hero's welcome. Some 25,000 Liberal Party stalwarts, including Tacho's uncle and stooge, arthritic, old (76) President Victor Roman y Reyes, turned out to acclaim "our guide and presidential candidate." Said scheming Tacho: "If at the legal time of the election the people maintain the determination they have demonstrated today, I shall take the place the Liberal Party has ordered me to take...