Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mask of Youth. Dulles went back to Sullivan & Cromwell, began a brilliant advance through major international assignments: he was counsel for a group of U.S. bondholders in the collapse of the Kreuger & Toll Swedish match trust, handled legal work on the $125 million J. P. Morgan & Co. loan to defeated Germany to help pay reparations. At 38 he became Sullivan & Cromwell's directing partner. It was then, according to one friend, that "young Foster adopted that dour expression, partly out of respect for the old fossils of 50 or 60 with whom he had to deal and partly...
...idea of hooking the most recalcitrant members on an unusual charge: conspiracy to obstruct justice (possible sentence: five years' imprisonment and/or $5,000 fine each) on the basis of their concerted refusal to talk (three of the 21 were also indicted on straight perjury charges). By that legal device, the Government hopes to put some of the top U.S. thugs out of circulation-certainly a worthy aim. Yet achieving that aim might prove impossibly difficult. Although circumstantial evidence is given substantial weight in conspiracy trials, it must nonetheless be proved that the Apalachin mobsters have refused to talk through...
...since the law also prohibits anyone from owning more than 995 acres of farm land or 3,316 acres of ranch land, many Cuban operators will suffer. Castro promised that he will reduce his own family's 2,178-acre farm to the new legal limit...
Britain, with only a few hundred known or suspected addicts, there is little smuggling; addicts get maintenance doses through legal channels...
...keep legal drugs out of illegal trade, let addicts have no more than two days' supply at a time; fingerprint and photograph them to prevent registration at different clinics under aliases...