Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salle local, long at odds with its parent union, issued a call for the resignations of Brewster, Beck and four other top Teamsters and urged that the international union be placed under trusteeship. A Toronto local flatly rejected Dave Beck's requests for financial aid for conducting the legal defenses of Teamster leaders. Chain letters were circulating in Los Angeles advising Teamster members to withhold their union dues. Brooding about the hundreds of thousands of dollars Teamster leaders had admitted "borrowing" from the union, a Los Angeles truck driver grumbled: "I can't even go down...
...Legal Way. The U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold has chosen a second, softer, lawyer's way of dealing with Nasser, and this is what made all the confusing headlines last week. Hammarskjold works to a plan which requires him to ignore alike the Egyptian calumnies, insults and niggling harassments against his UNEF and the "appeaser" cries of the frustrated Israelis. Taking off for Cairo, he announced, as optimistically as Hammarskjold ever gets: "We may be able to establish a situation in Gaza that will give all parties concerned satisfaction, including Israel...
...committed in resisting or avoiding arrest, or escaping from legal custody...
...Israelite's keenest fillip comes from Golden's saucy good sense on issues affecting racial and religious minorities. Last summer, while the North Carolina legislature was concocting elaborate legal stratagems to preserve segregation in the public schools, Harry Golden devised a painless formula for desegregation, based on his observation that deep-seated racial prejudices disappear when Southerners stand up. Explaining his Golden Vertical Negro Plan in the Israelite, Golden deadpanned: "The South, voluntarily, has all but eliminated vertical segregation. The white and Negro stand at the same grocery and supermarket counters, deposit money at the same bank teller...
...Bother You? A few weeks after the Ellises took the first legal steps to adopt the baby privately (i.e., not through an adoption agency), Hildy's mother, Marjorie McCoy, then a nursing trainee, demanded that Hildy be taken from the Ellises and put in a Catholic institution for adoption by a Catholic family. She claimed she did not know until after she signed the adoption papers that the Ellises are Jewish (they say she knew). At no time did she say that she wanted to keep Hildy herself...