Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need organized, independent, political action. We need liberal Democrats fighting within the party to make it, if possible, once again the party of Jackson, Wilson, and Roosevelt. We need independents who will meet the varied legal requirements of the different states for a third party as a hedge against the complete sellout of the present Democratic leadership. We need new political raw material--new candidates for public office. Older men and women who have shied away from politics must step into the battle as candidates, if we are to improve Congress. Young Americans must be encouraged to make careers...
Carol of Rumania and his red-haired Magda Lupescu, her "death bed" marriage to him last July now made good & legal, sailed off to Europe after three years of exile in Mexico, three in Brazil. The ship was headed for Portugal, and they probably would not get much closer than that to their Communist-dominated homeland. The newlyweds would not exactly be roughing it: they were taking along a number of canaries, five dogs, two automobiles, 145 pieces of luggage...
Next day the market was thrown out of gear with a resounding crash. A flood of selling started when the market opened. By the close, corn and soy beans were down 8?, their daily legal limit; wheat fell 6 to 8¾?. Even wholesale meat prices slipped, along with livestock prices. One thing that had finally frightened the speculator into panicky selling was a decision by the Federal Government to cut purchases of grains for November export by some 50 million bu., 42% below the July-October level. And traders who had expected frost to nip the short corn crop...
...session tense with the crossfire of eloquent oratory called for a Constitutional clause affirming every man's right to equal educational opportunity, and a section of the by-laws looking forward to "the eventual elimination of segregated educational systems anywhere in the United States" with due regard for "the legal limitations involved." The crucial provision was complete regional autonomy. Despite this, conservative Southern leader Lloyd Teakle of Louisiana State University could privately remark: "I guess we can get this thing through back home. I'll just show them the Constitution and hope no one else shows them those by-laws...
Died. Major General Archer Lynn Lerch, 53, capable, legal-minded U.S. Military Governor in the troublesome occupation zone of Korea, wartime boss of M.P.s as Provost Marshal General of a heart attack; in Seoul, Korea...