Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was not even any assurance that John Lewis would not strike anyhow. Final contract negotiations stalled over his insistence on clauses which would make it possible for the miners to exploit the loopholes in the Taft-Hartley Act. The operators insisted on legal language that would protect them against a charge of attempting to evade the law. When they found the formula, they signed. A few hours later, John L. Lewis' 200-man policy committee approved the agreement which would send the miners back to work...
Last week Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered the Spanish people to vote on his new law of succession. A yes vote would not only make Franco "Chief of State" for life in a kingless "kingdom," but would give him the legal right to name the king or regent who would succeed him. A no vote simply meant that Franco would continue as dictator of Spain, without even a shadowy commitment to restore the monarchy...
...Under Brazilian law, if a couple, one of whom is dying, wish to marry, they can declare that intention before six witnesses. A court then decides whether to make the marriage legal. Divorce does not exist in Brazil, and both Carol and Magda have been divorced; however, Brazilian courts sometimes recognize the divorces of foreigners. A knottier gimmick in the Carol-Magda nuptials is a Brazilian legal provision that the deathbed wedding procedure is invalidated if the ill spouse recovers...
...legal names of the society are plenty. It was first called 'The Loyal People's Home Returning Squad,' then 'The Volunteer Young Men's Squad.'. . . These squads were ordered dispersed because of their evil deeds [but] the squad that controls my village was renamed 'The Self-Protecting Squad.' . . . The ignorant farmers just called it the Huo Hui-Fire Society...
Last week, F.D.A. delivered its verdict: bubble gum seems to be OK. Except for aching jaws, which can be acquired from chewing either gum or wax, there were no bad reactions to the tests. F.D.A.'s conclusion: "There is therefore no basis at present for legal action against bubble...