Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What with rubbing shoulders with "haunts," paranoiacs, enraged students's wives, and bad-tempered landlords, the 33 Law School honor students who compose the Legal Aid Society lead a "harrying but interesting" existence within their headquarters in Gannet House, according to President Walter M. Robinson...
...President rested last week out on the end of a long limb of land-at Key West, Fla. Resting there with him was his counsel and legal adviser, Clark Clifford. While Clifford beamed on his smiling boss, Mr. Truman turned a tanned and apparently carefree face toward the photographers; Clifford himself glistened with confidence and sunburn oil. Looking at the two of them, no one would suspect the gravity of the problems which arrived daily in the pouch from, Washington. No one would suspect, in fact, that the country appeared to be getting ready to dump the whole Truman Administration...
Diligent Man. As his career waxed, the up-&-coming lawyer began to take an interest in the St. Louis Symphony Society, thus met James K. Vardaman, an old friend of Politician Harry Truman. When "Jake" Vardaman went into the Navy, he left the legal end of his business in Clifford's hands. The Vardaman Shoe Co. was being liquidated. Clifford tied up the loose ends...
...when he got to Washington he discovered that a Mrs. Christine Putnam Johnston, of Hanceville, Ala. (pop. 650) had beaned him with a legal dornick. Christine, a tall, redheaded divorcee, had asked the Cullman County circuit court to declare Big Jim her common-law husband and the father of her 22-month-old son. She had also told reporters a tale of unrequited love...
...only in Jerusalem, but in much of Palestine, legal quibbles at Lake Success seemed very remote; the immediate question was whether or not people would continue to get their daily bread, fuel, water, government services of any kind after the British leave...