Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tune of avuncular indignation against both of China's warring factions. "The civil war has spread and increased in intensity. The Chinese Communists by force of arms seek control of wide areas of China. The U.S. and all other world powers recognize the National Government as the sole legal government of China. . . . We should extend to the Government and its people certain economic aid and assistance. A definite proposal is under preparation...
...London, energetic Victor F. W. Cavendish-Bentinck, 40, who was sacked from the Foreign Service last September after his high-flavored divorce trial, won a Pyrrhic victory. An Appeals Court judge threw out the legal separation Mrs. Cavendish-Bentinck had won; he was convinced, he said, that she herself had misbehaved-indeed, with the husband of one of Victor's own friends...
After marrying Isobel, Cripps had left the chemistry laboratory to take up the law. He was quickly successful. In the 19203 he earned up to $150,000 a year. His mastery of difficult facts resulted in a high proportion (about 80%) of legal victories. But he was restless; he yearned to put his ideas of Christian socialism into practice. He entered politics...
...their control by "a group of wealthy individuals who share the same point of view." He thinks publishers have no right to be publishers simply because they inherited papers. Writes Liebling: "Try to imagine the future of medicine, law or pedagogy if their absolute control were vested in the legal heirs of men who had bought practices in 1890-even when the heirs lacked any special training...
Professor Freund served as Brandeis's legal secretary...