Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe a commission representing all the members of the Council would more fully represent the moral as well as the legal weight of the Council toward the maintenance of international peace...
...same thing of the refuse I read in the Daily Worker. I do not howl for the suppression of the Worker, and neither does the CRIMSON. But Communists howl long and loud about people like Smith, and when the remaining rather few middle class libertarians ask for legal treatment of Smith, they are, inevitably called fascists and Germany is darkly referred to. But I saw Life's photographs showing Communists breaking up a meeting in Hungary, and recall Trotsky's death in Mexico. And here at home I remember Albert Malz's recent attempt to introduce the question of esthetics...
...highly specialized mine fields there was little chance that the operators could exert their legal right to hire new men to mine the coal, even if they dared. Other labor leaders, who knew that John Lewis was not loony, watched carefully...
Last week Millard Wright's brain operation presented the court with a difficult legal question: Is a criminal tendency a disease that surgery can cure? Brought to trial for his burglaries before Judge G. Malcolm McDonald, Wright looked like a new man. He was cheerful, sociable and relaxed. Dr. Koskoff thought there was a good chance that he had been cured of the urge to steal. But to complete the cure, the prisoner would have to be set free and given a chance to live in a "normal" environment...
...added to his phone or electric light bill. A small, inexpensive (about $5) telephone attachment* would transmit the missing key frequencies to his set. Another show could not be tuned in without another paid admission. The system, McDonald predicts, will be operating within a year-barring, of course, legal objections by the Federal Communications Commission, which has not yet considered the matter...