Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief of Criminal Police Georges Clot recalled that Houdard had been in the Maquis. "He had to live off the land; that meant that often he did things that were not exactly legal. He doesn't seem to have gotten out of the habit...
...Melo Viana, for permission to speak. He talked long enough to fill 16 newspaper rolumns. He denied rumors that he was conspiring against the Government with former President Getulio Vargas, and he praised Dictator Perón's variety of democracy in Argentina, where the Communist Party is legal...
...seemed to be going places fast. He was summoned to appear in traffic court on a charge of speeding at 52 m.p.h. in a playful race near U.N. headquarters on Long Island with wife Ethel du Pont Roosevelt (who got a summons, too). He was also appointed legal counsel for the A.F.L.'s Upholsterers International Union of North America...
...greatest jurist in your country. It takes many centuries to produce a man like that," Chao Lung Yang, director of the department of criminal affairs of the Chinese National Government declared last night. Chao is now in Cambridge after two months of European travel and three international legal conferences...
...McCloy suggested to his brother-in-law Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to Britain, that the World Bank might provide funds for Ruhr reconstruction. But since Germany is not eligible for a World Bank loan, a way would first have to be found to get around the bank's legal restrictions...