Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While College men living in Massachusetts will experience little difficulty in registering, transient students must conform with election regulations by declaring legal residence in the state...
According to the Tax Commissioner's Office, men declaring legal residence in Massachusetts will not be subject to stringent tax policies. Massachusetts assesses a two dollar Poll Tax on all citizens and allows residents a $2000 state income tax exemption plus an additional $500 deduction per wife...
Despite opposition voiced last December by student leaders, the Law School Faculty is pressing plans for the construction of a "Treasure Room" to store the School's 25,000 rare legal volumes...
There was a curiously ironic angle to Nikola Petkoff's legal murder. When Georgi Dimitroff awaited trial in a Nazi jail, Petkoff was one of a group of Bulgarian political leaders who arranged for Dimitroff's 72-year-old mother, Baba Parashkeva, to visit him. Gratefully she said then: "If my son lives through this, he will repay you a thousand times...
...this "rape of Silesia," however, he proclaimed justifications that were echoed in every subsequent Prussian and German aggression. The mere legal rights were the least important. Prussia, he argued, was entitled to territory commensurate with her stature as a state; Prussia could govern Silesia better than Austria could; it was Prussia's destiny, and anyway he was only striking first, for it was a defensive war designed to "prevent others [from] seizing" Silesia, and to bulwark Prussia against her enemies. The works of Prussia's enemies, then and in the dreadful Seven Years' War that followed, were...