Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be violating the U.S. antitrust laws and making "peons" out of professional ballplayers at the same time. Since baseball had been writing the same kind of contract for two generations, it was a little like being told, after years of married life, that the wedding wasn't legal after...
Dangerous Dan, 28, now a $125-a-month orderly at a Mount Vernon (N.Y.) hospital, was enjoying the landslide he had set in motion. He still had a long legal row to hoe before collecting any of the $300,000. But he was not backing down. Said he last week: "I'm back in my own country now and I can't play ball. That's why I'm going through with this case...
...library while he was hiding out from the Germans during the occupation. In the end he began to feel that he was divinely inspired to do something about it. Groskamp first appealed to the World Council of Churches meeting in Amsterdam last summer; then he lodged his carefully drawn legal brief with the Supreme Court of Israel...
Groskamp's main points: 1) High Priest Caiaphas violated several Jewish legal procedures in his conduct of the trial; 2) the Jews rejected Jesus as messiah because he was no national liberator. Israel's present rebirth without the help of a messiah proves that the messiah did not have to be a national liberator, Groskamp contends, hence Jesus' rejection on those grounds was an error...
...Legal and religious experts are sure Israel's court will eventually drop the case for lack of jurisdiction. But first, Mijnheer Groskamp's petition will be given careful consideration and an official reply...