Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police president of Munich, Ernst Pöhner, by proper exercise of the legal powers vested in him, might have halted the back-alley rowdyisms of Hitler and his followers...
...office promptly denied this. The fake radio news was enough to frighten Socialist Leader Bohumil Lausman, a middle-of-the-roader, into resigning. Loudspeaker trucks proclaimed that his pro-Communist rival Zdenek Fierlinger had resumed leadership of the Socialist Party. This meant that the Communists could now control a legal majority in Parliament. But Benes still held...
Boss Frank Gannett fumed that the state needed a law "putting newspapermen on a legal par with the clergy in protecting those who confide." In going after Clarke and Leonard, said Gannett, District Attorney Stanley B. Johnson "has established a reputation for swift and ruthless action. It is to be hoped he shows a like alacrity in disposing of gamblers and gambling institutions." At week's end, Johnson showed no such alacrity. The only other arrests were two gamblers, their pockets stuffed with policy tickets. They were fined and turned loose...
...Orlando's 29th annual cockfighting tournament-though no word of it appeared in Florida newspapers last week. Florida is the only state in the union where cockfighting is legal (but the heavy betting that goes on at the pit is not, hence the secrecy...
With similar instruction in 'other legal activities' in the offing, the newly-formed committee's first official release said, "the purpose of the groups, in a general way, will be to foster House spirit by providing facilities heretofore lacking or inadequate in the College...