Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaker on the first topic will be Ceferino Padua, Chief Legal Counsel of the Welfare Administration and Professor of Law and Liberal Arts at Francisco College in Manila...
Lawyer's Stand. Calm, bulky and phlegmatic, Lawyer Dulles took the position that Egypt as a sovereign nation had a legal right to nationalize the Canal Company-an Egyptian entity which he likened to a public utility with a government charter-so long as Egypt paid due compensation. But he also held that Nasser, in seizing the canal itself, had violated solemn treaties.* In the end, the Big Three duly called a conference of 24 nations "deeply concerned with use of the canal"* to meet in London Aug. 16. At Dulles' insistence, those invited included not only Egypt...
...five years since he wrested control of the Florence city government from the Communists, Sicilian-born Giorgio La Pira has conscientiously followed this simple approach to public problems and private funds. With a cheerful disregard for legality, the onetime professor of Roman law has seized bankrupt factories to prevent dismissal of their employees, requisitioned private dwellings to house the poor and financed public works so expensive that they have exhausted Florence's legal borrowing power until the year...
...collection of his exquisitely detailed pornographic drawings. But he declined to sell them to Hollywood connoisseurs. Miller's friends advised him to get rid of his incubus, but Moricand insisted on regarding the papers Miller had signed to get the man into the U.S. as a moral and legal obligation upon Miller to support...
...suspense" story at first may be let down. They should recover soon after the opening pages of this leisurely, finely textured novel about the first big case of a female trial lawyer. The interest centers on the character of the heroine and the fascinating details of the British legal system...