Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strategy Backfiring. Many Southern legal eagles argued no, and Conservative Democrat Dave Lawrence stated their case: "Contempt charges . . . have been applied heretofore primarily to acts committed in a courtroom or with respect to property seized by an individual which he may be forced to bring into a courtroom." This view ignored the classic use of the contempt-of-court charge to enforce the injunctive power, e.g., in the fines totaling $30,000 levied in 1946 and 1948 against United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis for disobeying a court order to return his miners to work. The contempt citation...
Forces Gathering. Stunned by such direct action, the segregationists turned their eyes toward Knoxville, where their leaders' trial was set for Jan. 28, and where in preparation for it great legal forces were already gathering...
Kadar's men, were being used to take power away from legal branches of government and "must be stopped by arms." "This is a declaration of war against the workers," said one council member...
House Cleaning. The stabilization loan announced last week came about after Bolivia, in despair, got the services of a U.S. consultant named George Jackson Eder, legal counsel for International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. and an old Latin American hand. The sum, equal at the present 10,000-to-$1 boliviano rate to nearly double the value of the 140 billion bolivianos now in circulation, should be enough, if carefully fed into the dollar market, to roll the boliviano well back. The experts guess that the boliviano's realistic rate will turn...
...weekend-crowded transportation facilities. Section men hold forth to such diminished numbers at the end of the week that the students who do remain are sorry they did. With the holiday beginning so late the administration is only inviting students to leave early. Why not make their departure legal? Henry deL. Smythe...