Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attorney General Brownell's annual report reemphasized the importance of President Eisenhower's civil rights bill, at present stuck in the Mississippi mud of Senator Eastman's Judiciary Committee. Brownell mentioned many letters demanding action by the Justice Department in "shocking" cases where Negroes had been denied legal equality. These letters are, in effect, a public mandate for some form of the administration bill, which extends Justice Department jurisdiction to active prosecution of civil rights abuses...
...less sensational cases between Negro and white, Southern courts have consistently meted prejudicial "justice." Unable to act because the cases themselves concern only violations of state laws, the Department has had to remain passive despite popular protest throughout the rest of the country. The present measure would give a legal implement for enforcing the intent of the Constitution, providing a special division of the Justice Department to investigate civil rights complaints as well as the formal basis for intervention under the laws and court decisions...
While the President's answer was a classic solution to a delicate problem, it was also the truth. Bluff Edgar Eisenhower, a popular and respected member of Tacoma's legal community, loves to recall how he and Dwight (two years younger) used to fight "for the sheer joy of slugging one another." In fact, he still boasts that he can lick young Dwight any time, any place-a statement that Ike heartily denies...
...free-enterprise economy. The Social Crediters readily sold their panaceas to the Depression-racked Albertans of 1935. moved to power on a promise to pay every citizen $25 a month. But Social Credit's early efforts to write the Douglas theories into law ran into a formidable legal roadblock; repeatedly, the courts held that credit and banking were a federal responsibility, threw out provincial easy-credit legislation...
Literary Chloroform. But the stags lave yet to be brought to bay. The trouble with attempts to ban them is that most legal definitions of obscenity ineviably trap serious-intentioned publishers and writers in the censor's net. Last month district attorneys from 38 Pennsylvania counties met to "discuss new methods of combatting the obscene literature pouring into the state." but were anable to agree on any fair or workable censorship formula. Even churchmen do not agree that the stag magazines drive children to delinquency. The Rev. Owen McKinley Walton, executive director of Pittsburgh's Council of Churches...