Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worthy and two Look Magazine correspondents still face possible legal action and passport revocation because of their disregard of the State Department edict that their passports were invalid in Red China...
...government needs some kind of rejuvenation. Large chunks of Sumatra. Indonesia's richest island, have been in open revolt. Deprived of much of the revenue from Sumatra's exports (oil, tin and rubber), the central government has been forced to issue an emergency decree lowering the legal ratio of gold to paper currency from 20% to 15%. For nearly three months the crumbling Cabinet of hapless Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo has clung to office largely on Sukarno's insistence...
...beginning of the meeting (as one observing newsman put it), "protocol controlled every wink and sneeze." Because neither President had legal permission to leave his own country, they shook hands over a carefully surveyed international boundary marker at mid-bridge. The presentations of wives and officials were made in a minuetlike ritual. Then the two chiefs retired to a little pavilion built at one side of the bridge, sat down, and talked...
...change in the law of the land. Such objects have never been considered charitable." The defeat of Shaw's crusade, added Sir Charles, "is not the fault of the law but of the testator, who failed almost for the first time in his life either to grasp the legal problem or to make up his mind what he wanted...
...said that the paper quoted him falsely as saying that he did not have "a legal leg to stand on." Although this was changed in later articles to "the State Department, in his opinion, did not have a legal leg to stand upon," the Herald did not mention that this was a correction, Worthy claimed...