Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal state of war which still exists between the Western nations and Germany would be softened by juggling some technicalities, but not altogether suspended (the U.S. wants to retain a legal basis for keeping a U.S. force in Western Germany...
Judge Davidson took the case under advisement as the United Secularists settled themselves down for a long climb up the legal ladder to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last-week scrappy Octogenarian McCarthy's white frame house in Clifton, N.J. was piled high with broadsides, and almost every evening embattled Secularists were coming in to help mail out a special appeal for funds. Said McCarthy happily: "Nobody gets paid for this, you understand. We're all charity workers here-and we're giving the Lord hell...
Died. John T. Dooling, 78, white-topped power in Tammany Hall during its heyday, for 40 years legal adviser to Tammany's candidates (including Governor Alfred E. Smith and Mayor James J. Walker); in White Plains...
Into Atlanta's federal district court trooped legal representatives of Independent Producer Louis de Rochemont, who helped launch the "Negro-problem" movie cycle with his Lost Boundaries (TIME, July 4), and Film Classics, Inc., the picture's distributor. They asked for 1) an injunction against last summer's ban on the film by Atlanta censors (who found that it would "adversely affect the peace, morals and good order" of the city); and 2) a ruling that Atlanta's censorship laws violate the U.S. Constitution...
Some Atlantans wondered why their censors had let themselves (and censors everywhere) in for a legal wrangle. Lost Boundaries, the true story of a Negro family that passed for white, had played successfully in such cities as Jacksonville and Birmingham. And the day before the De Rochemont suit was filed, Pinky, another Negro-problem film, opened to packed houses and a good press in Atlanta itself, with no noticeable effect on the city's peace, morals or good order...