Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt's brain-trusters of the early New Deal had vanished from Harry Truman's Administration. Only David Lilienthal and James McCauley Landis remained in important jobs. Last week hawk-eyed Jim Landis, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board and one of the keenest legal eagles of them all, got his walking papers...
...Landis would have to go. Harry Truman was concerned over the increasing friction in CAB, and over the dissatisfaction throughout the Administration with the way CAB was doing its job (TIME, March 17). The President talked it over with most of his top advisers. All admired Jim Landis' legal abilities and his fair-mindedness, but all had pet peeves. From almost every side came stories about Landis' irascibility and inability to get along with people...
...Tokyo last week, after 18 months of legal bickering and monotonous reading of documents, the drowsy courtroom in the old War Ministry building came to life. The chief characters of the climactic scenes were Hideki ("The Razor") Tojo and Ryukichi ("The Monster") Tanaka. Neither expected to live long. War Criminal Tojo expected to be hanged by the victors, whose newly written laws he boldly challenged; Tanaka expected to be assassinated by the vanquished, whose old, unwritten laws he had betrayed...
...think the myth of Red superiority is a bubble. They do, however, have two advantages over us. They have initiative . . . Hitler had it too . . . any burglar has . . . while we're bound to legal nonaggressive methods both morally and politically. As compensation, we have the advantage of people who are generally accepted as being in the right...
...train rodeo horses-by correspondence course. He can study "sleight of hand and prestidigitation" at the Chavez School of Magic, or master the art of makeup at the San Joaquin College of Cosmetology. Other schools will show the ex-G.I. (for tuitions curiously close to the legal maximum of $500) how to make candy, model for ads, decorate a cake...