Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would he "discuss the question of moral obligation to use armed force in resisting attack on one of the members?" That was the heart of the matter. Hold your hats, the Secretary warned, there's been a lot of loose thought on the distinction between moral and legal obligation. Decent people usually carry out their contracts because of moral obligation. Some decent people default in their contracts because they get in trouble one way or another, and then they go to court...
Federal Judge Harold Medina, whose silken calm has carried him successfully through weeks of shrill legal heckling, addressed himself to 16 solemn citizens of New York last week...
Ever since the Russians imposed their blockade last spring, a troublesome currency situation has existed in West Berlin. The Western Allies permitted the use of the Russians' East marks as legal tender alongside the West's own currency. In their own half of Berlin, the Russians had shown no such liberal attitude. Western currency was strictly banned. Since Berliners had more confidence in the Western than in the Eastern currency, West marks last week were worth four times as much as East marks. But people in West Berlin had to accept the East mark for wages, rent...
...however will not waive its legal rights in the current controversy despite RKO's latest offer, Goldblum emphasized. He stated that the HLU will continue negotiations with United World Finne, another film distributor which has restricted HLU rentals...
...Radio Pictures Inc. has agreed to resume supplying 16 millimeter films to the Liberal Union Film Series, Abraham P. Goldblum 2L, an HLU legal staff member, announced last night...