Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk to you, Ranger." The deputy told Long that he had come to serve a writ. Said Governor Long: "I'm glad to know you're helping me. Now, son, sit down and read those papers you have to me." The papers were stark in their legal phrasing...
...September's end. Elaine sidled back into the act to declare: "I won't feel I'm divorced from him until my California decree becomes final next year." Rumbled the judge who granted it: "I intend to look into the Mexican divorce and do whatever my legal duties call for." Said father-to-be (his fourth child) Rooney: "We're just elated that everybody in the world is put out by our happiness...
...textile mills in the Carolinas alone-Charles A. Cannon, 66, also owns the North Carolina city of Kannapolis (pop. 30,000). His father founded it in 1906 and gave it its name, a loose derivative of his own. Kannapolis has no mayor, city manager, city council, charter or legal existence. As president of the Cannon Mills Co., vested proprietor of Kannapolis, Charles Cannon presides over trash collection, fire fighting and street maintenance, collects rent from 1,700 homes, subsidizes the police department and owns most municipal real estate, including the downtown business district. He also employs the majority...
...aspect of Geneva's life escaped John Calvin's strict control; he was consulted on every legal, political or economic question that came before the city's councils (he developed Geneva's cloths and velvet trade and even introduced an advanced system of sanitary regulations). Doctrine for him was never a speculative but a practical matter, and the waves of his theocratic thought rolled on through the centuries to reappear in Scottish Presbyterianism and New England Puritanism...
...ambassador, who graduated from the Law School 30 years ago, claimed that the traditional dispute among lawyers over natural law or pragmatism is only a "surface conflict" and that both must be employed in legal or diplomatic cases. In this connection Russell traced what he called "the necessary closeness of law and diplomacy...