Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no reason for the Navy to be red-faced about the truth. The mission was perfectly legal; electronics-crammed planes patrol regularly outside the Communist-claimed twelve-mile limit. Their missions are essential; it is the prime duty of U.S. forces to keep track of the relentless Communist buildup at key Asian jumping-off points. The Mercator's flight was part of the hazardous duty that crewmen long ago came to accept as normal in the Asian aerial no man's land. Since the Korean armistice of 1953, Communist and U.S. planes have exchanged fire...
...legal sense, it was four young, white Florida Tobacco Readers who were on trial last week in a sweltering Tallahassee courtroom. They were charged with abducting a 19-year-old coed at Florida A. & M. University (for Negroes), forcing her at shotgun and knifepoint into a lonely stand of pines and blackjack oaks and between them, raping her seven times. But in a broader and more important sense, the Southern, segregated State of Florida was being tested in its ability to render equal justice under the law. Florida passed the test with dignity and a fine regard...
...stark warning by Commerce Minister Alberto Ullastres that something drastic must be done to save the Spanish economy (TIME, June 15), 50 small and medium-sized factories in hard-hit Barcelona announced a "suspension of payments," a legal state just this side of actual bankruptcy that defers debt payments and allows a company to lay off help (otherwise forbidden by law). In a land where newspapers print no unpleasant news, word spread that the big (3,000 employees) Euskalduna shipyard and the Basconia steel mill in Bilbao were also about to lay off their work forces, and so was Madrid...
Neither critical opinion, nor press censure, nor threat of legal action, nor the embarrassment of looking a little stuffy last week stayed Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield from swiftly reaching a foregone conclusion: The unexpurgated edition of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover is "an obscene and filthy work," and may not be sent through the U.S. mails. He thus continued a 30-year ban, and backed up New York Post Office operatives who vigilantly followed the old ruling last month by seizing 164 copies...
...goods is asking too much bread (cash). Duke is forced to take a job. Says the local marijuana wholesaler: "I look forward to the time when there be men of wisdom in Washington & I can provide my Staff with the Blue Cross & vacations with pay ... Oh if we was legal Lad. If ony we was legal like the other cigarette companies. Every year I'd plow back one percent of the gross inta advertising . . . Girl sittin in a swing-lots of flowers an things aroun her indicating she is accustom to the better things life offers-an under...