Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, while Lepori dumbly awaited judgment, other Defense Ministry personnel officers were checking their records to see whether De Virgilio had worked the statutory 19 years, six months and one day. If not, his wife and children, like Lepori, will have no legal right to a pension...
...Chicago federal court, the most important legal decision affecting U.S. business this year-and perhaps for years to come-was handed down last week by snow-mustached Judge Walter Jacob LaBuy. Framing the terms for the long-awaited divorce of Du Pont from its 23% control of General Motors stock, Judge LaBuy ruled that Du Pont may keep its 63 million shares (market value: $3.5 billion), but must give up its voting rights...
Regardless of the merits of his legal arguments, there are several objections to the test-case procedure. As Howe himself has admitted, the government might not sue to recover the misallocated funds; it might merely refuse to grant Harvard any additional money. Secondly, University officials could conceivably be prosecuted for willfully and illegally disbursing government funds. Such a criminal action could tend to obscure publicly the central issues of the dispute. Finally, even if the government did sue to recover misspent funds, a complex financial imbroglio could result, for students who get NDEA funds need pay back only half...
...rapid integration won a round in Arkansas last week. Taking its cue from a U.S. Supreme Court decision, which upheld the constitutionality of Alabama's pupil-placement law last winter, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled that a similar law in Arkansas is legal. Under the law, Arkansas school boards have full authority to assign students on the basis of qualifications not essentially concerned with race...
Adequate salary scales for faculty members ostensibly touched off the entire controversy. Able educators quickly turned away when they heard the UMass emoluments; full professors started at $6,812 per year, and could earn a legal maximum of $8,684, slightly less than half the comparable salaries at Harvard. But a larger issue encompasses many of the UMass problems: How much control should the state government exert over its land-grant college? Massachusetts has gained a certain notoriety for the inordinate amount of academic control held by the state legislature. For example, the University of Massachusetts cannot keep any fees...