Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie bosses were in for a long and probably bitter legal fight with the ten talented men who got the pink slips of dismissal. The film industry, they cried, had been "stampeded into surrendering" its freedom of ideas and expression...
...sucker with a "system" is always welcome in Reno, where gambling is legal. One day last month two young amateur gamblers strode confidently into Reno's gaudy Palace Club. They were armed with a bankroll of $120 and a "scientific" theory cooked up between classes at the University of Chicago...
Like University investment policies throughout the country, Harvard's has been even more successful than those of insurance companies and savings banks, largely because there are comparatively few legal restrictions on university investments. The result is that Harvard is able to hold more than half its funds in securities of American corporations, an amount which insurance companies and savings banks cannot approach. It is particularly true, therefore, as a recent survey concludes, that the "growth and prosperity of American industry is of great benefit and importance to universities." Harvard's growing holdings in common stocks and Claflin's statement concerning...
Juicy Item. The faded springtime appetite of the newspaper-reading public was stimulated by a savory item on Fritz Mandl's latest marital difficulties. Mandl's third wife, Herta Schneider, sued for legal separation (divorce is outlawed in Argentina), charged Fritz dragged her around their swanky apartment by the hair. Scandal-loving Crítica plastered the story all over the paper, complete with cheesecake pictures of Hedy Lamarr, Mandl's second wife, recounted Mandl's efforts to suppress the film Ecstasy...
Although all roads lead to New Haven this weekend, the Automobile Legal Association recommends only one safe and easy path to the Bowl...