Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They will handle America's oldest student law magazine during its sixty-third year of publication since its founding in 1887. The eight issues per year of the journal are filled with discussions of contemporary legal problems...
Laski-was firm in defending the rights of admitted Communists to teach, and hold other positions of employment. "As long as the Communist Party is legal in America, and has not been declared unlawful by an act of Congress, Communists, if efficient, have as much right to hold a job as anyone else," he declared...
...doubtful whether the charge-that he and the ten others were guilty of conspiring since 1945 to teach and advocate the forcible overthrow of the U.S. Government-weighed too heavily upon him. The legal battle stretched interminably ahead. There was even a chance that he might achieve, finally, a kind of martyrdom. In a perilous sort of way, the Government's attack had given his Communist Party a new prestige at the moment when its light was the dimmest it had been in over two decades...
...same story all over Western Europe. For years the busiest black market in Rome was sunny Piazza Colonna, just 50 yards from the heavily guarded Chamber of Deputies. One young operator sadly admitted that in two months the dollar had dropped from 711 to 614 lire (legal rate: 570). "Spring always does this to us," he rationalized. "It can't last. People are just optimistic...
...later reinforced, and Hunter's line is still flying a fleet of 24. Both Martin and Northwest pooh-poohed the lawsuit, and Glenn Martin said it was just "a quarrel between insurance companies which doesn't affect us at all." But neither company stood to win a legal battle if it started passengers worrying all over again about the planes...