Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University officials are negotiating a contract for a projected Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film entitled "Murder at Harvard" based on the Medical School's Department of Legal Medicine...
...basis of Metro's interest in the Legal Medicine branch of the Medical School stems, from its function of assisting the state police in the investigation of sudden deaths, including murders. The department teaches legal medicine to both Medical and Law students...
...employer to kick out anyone who is a Communist, acts like one, or refuses to say whether he is or isn't one. But when Cole's suit came before a federal jury in Los Angeles last month, the trial turned into nothing more than a legal test of MGM's morals clause. Judge Leon R. Yankwich, charged MGM, had made a cocktail-party observation that all of the accused should be rehired. Judge Yankwich denied it, refused to disqualify himself. In the trial he made it clear that, so far as he was concerned, Communism...
...surprisingly uneven job; notably, Gordon squeezes much less than he might out of the buildup to the "mercy killing" itself. The picture is also disappointing because it dodges and neglects so much. The pros & cons of euthanasia are presented in the round; a distinction is made between moral and legal guilt; and something of the misery of deceit is shown...
...their help in fighting Russia. Some even spread the fantastic tale that General Yamashita, whose appeal to the Supreme Court was turned down in 1946, had not been hanged at all and was now in the U.S. as a top military adviser. Most Japanese were simply bewildered by the legal mumbo jumbo of the inscrutable Occidentals. Many an American felt the same...