Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guilty of "trying to overthrow the Hungarian People's Democracy," and executed. The Hungarian Writers' Union, which had sparked the revolution, and the National Association of Journalists were dissolved. Two writers were indicted for having circulated underground newssheets. In preparation for a series of show trials, the legal system was being purged of prosecutors who had shown "undesirable leniency," and juries were being castigated for allowing "bad liberalism" to take over from "strict...
...great freedom-creating traditions of Western thought and action. This is due in part to the fact that the study of law has become a professional monopoly, with the result that educated non-lawyers and scarcely introduced to the basic principles and processes of our legal system...
...Malady One of the gravest weaknesses of U.S. education was bluntly pointed out by Dean William C. Warren of the Columbia University School of Law in his annual report. While the art of writing, said Dean Warren, "is indispensable to the achievement of distinction in the [legal] profession . . . the inability of college graduates who come to us to read and write is a malady of epidemic proportions." But one question remains: What will be an effective cure...
...Last week, having waived a jury trial, Librarian Knowles appeared in the court of Federal Judge Ross Rizley, sitting in Washington, D.C.. for a one-day session in which she did not take the stand. The judge's decision: since the Senate subcommittee was performing its legal duty in seeking information on Communist infiltration, the witness had no right to withhold such information or to invoke the First Amendment. Found guilty on 52 out of 58 counts, Mary Knowles now faces a maximum possible sentence of a year in jail and a $1,000 fine...
...majority of the committee later passed Sullivan's motion to photostat copies of the petition to be distributed to all school committee members. Shaplin requested that the group ask legal counsel to determine whether the move was within the law, but, agreeing with Fitzgerald that the committee could do what it wished with the petition, the majority defeated his proposal...