Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maryland made the birthday of Abraham Lincoln a legal holiday, reducing to 16 the number of states (mostly in the South) which do not observe...
Thousands of Indians murdered their fellowmen last year. Few were arrested, none convicted-because legal evidence is difficult to procure when the ordinary man counts perjury a duty if it helps a friend or relative. In Delhi's dingy Sessions Court last week, a murder trial ended which demonstrated India's problem of crime & punishment...
...bought from Mr. Cramer was six hours of factual information. You neglect that the CRIMSON Editor then took his six hours of information to the Department of History, and they gave him a B-plus in return. Now, I contend that Mr. Cramer's transaction was a perfectly legal and honorable one, and that he is not to be slandered for it. The transaction of the History Department, on the other hand, is of a questionable nature...
...adopted, the tutoring school may make secure the foothold which it has regained. The small sector of the student body which has succumbed to the lure of the harpies can befoul the whole College, and the time for opposing action is now. The University should use every moral and legal pressure at its command to eradicate this disease before its contamination can spread...
...latest and unanimous decision the Supreme Court has established racial equality on a somewhat firmer legal footing. The processes by which the Court operates are slow. There is still much to be done before the position of the Negro in America is one of which the nation can be proud. Many loopholes remain to be plugged, and new ones will be found. It is discouraging to consider how many years must pass before the people of the United States will recognize and set upon the simple principles of justice and equality about which they can speak so glibly. Yet this...