Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commencing on the recent legal action brought against him, and attendent publicity, Fournier said yesterday that his business was "at a standstill...
Justice in Time. Paris' famed Cirque d'Hiver was persuaded to lend its ring and five lions-Pasha, Prince, Romeo, Pigalle and Hamed-for the legal demonstration. "Never turn your back on Prince," admonished Circus Manager Alexandre Bouglione as Steinmann prepared to enter the cage. A breathless girl in black rushed up to wish the trainer bonne chance. "This," shouted the lawyer for the defense, "is all irrelevant," but nobody paid any attention. A court bailiff pulled a green dossier from his overcoat pocket and settled down to take notes...
...political censorship, the Maryland board argued: "Immorality . . . extends to the entire moral code"; therefore, a film "based upon deceit and misrepresentation" could be banned as a "moral breach." Prodded by the Baltimore Sunpapers, Governor W. Preston Lane Jr. asked his attorney general whether the censors were within their legal powers. Ruled Attorney General Hall Hammond...
...Shafir of Manhattan, refused to contest it. In their annual report, the stubborn censors were still defending their decision: "Certainly the screen is no place for documentary subjects that are presented without truth and sincerity, and the sooner the board is enabled to cope with such abuses beyond legal .doubt, the better...
Joza Vilfan, Yugoslavian delegate to the UN, will head the list of speakers. The remainder of the panel includes Aubrey Eban, Israeli delegate to the UN, Abraham Feller, LL.B. '28, director of the UN Legal department, and Chester Williams, former public liaison officer of the U.S. delegation...