Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once a man has finished college, there is no legal provision for deferment through graduate study. This matter is entirely in the hands of the local draft boards, which may or may not approve a student's request for4NROTC students satisfy part of their service obligation in regular Monday afternoon drill periods behind the football stadium...
...broom closet still had its Taft campaign portraits up, we noticed, as we stumbled into a conference of two legal minds who were batting out their indifferences before the assembled multitude...
...charge that Goody Knight's "open lines" were busy when the governor claimed that they were not. But more important than even the fact that Davis did have an opportunity to make his plea at an earlier date was the clear instance of how a set of confused legal procedures can spell tragedy. On the one hand, said Davis, federal law allows an attorney 90 days to file for a writ of certiorari (a re-examination of the record) upon the State Supreme Court's refusal of a rehearing. But in Abbott's case, the State Court...
...American aid." Royal Premier Souvanna Phouma, who had come back empty-handed from a trip to Peking last year, replied: "How could we accept what has not been offered to us?" He knew better than anyone else that almost the whole Laotian budget, save for some revenue from legal and illegal opium exports, comes from...
Under oath before SEC, Silberstein angrily denied any personal profit, said that his operations are perfectly legal methods of buying stock without paying more cash than Penn-Texas can afford. The stock, said he, was bought through the web of intermediaries to 1) avoid pushing the open-market price higher, and 2) get it from sources who would sell it on credit or agree to later delivery and payment. Despite the high premiums, said Silberstein, Penn-Texas bought Fairbanks, Morse stock (now about $57) at an average $52 a share...