Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire corridor in the old State Department building, his aides pumped out a steady stream of suggestions, advice, recipes, and bales of statistics (one slice of bread saved per person each day means seven million 1-lb. loaves a day for Europe). He flatly turned down any idea of legal controls...
...world, which has so far failed to organize itself as one world, at least and at last got a symbol of unity: a worldwide flag. At Lake Success, the U.N. Assembly's Legal Committee took five minutes to approve a secretariat design: a white polar projection map of the earth's seas and continents on a smoke-blue background. As with the U.N. emblem adopted last year, the earth was shown girdled with olive branches. For the present, nobody would be required to pledge allegiance to the flag. But it would be handy for identifying U.N. outposts...
...personal animosity, so widely heralded by pre-game fable, was completely dissipated in strictly within-bounds, highly legal, and bruisingly rough football. It became evident, after the announcement that Paul Lazzaro's injury was not serious, that the only casualty of the day was inflicted upon the feelings of one William J. Bingham '16, by a dateless cheering section...
...Pressman, general counsel for the Congress of Industrial Organizations, will deliver his legal analysis of the highly controversial Taft-Hartley labor act to tite University chapter of the National Lawyers Guild in Lagdell Courtroom tonight at 8 o'clock...
...price rise in cocoa in recent weeks had outstripped every other commodity. Decontrolled by OPA at 14.95? a pound, December cocoa had soared to 35.45?. Last week, after rising the legal limit each day for seven days, it got to 42.25?. Spot deliveries were quoted at 49?, a whopping 900% above 1939-3 price...