Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians do not accept these concessions, chiefly because they know that a soverign Germany set up under any conditions (except with Russian soldiers counting the ballots) will march right into NATO at the first legal opportunity; they cannot afford a setback of this kind. So any compromise on re-unification will have to give Germany less than complete sovereignty in her foreign affairs...
...voluntary hospitals are specifically exempted by both federal and state law from compulsory collective bargaining, and the struck six stuck to their legal guns. The Greater New York Hospital Association rejected Mayor Robert F. Wagner's suggestion that both sides submit their case to an impartial fact-finding commission. On strike's eve, the six hospitals got court orders to head it off, but the orders were ineffective because Local President Leon J. Davis, once an apostle of left-wing causes, went into hiding to avoid service...
...Keep On." When the school board's three Faubusites dutifully heeded their sponsor fortnight ago, the script was switched by the three moderate members. To keep the teacher purge from being legal, the moderates walked out of a board meeting, and there was no quorum. The Faubusites fired the teachers anyway, and Little Rock erupted: 179 angry citizens organized STOP (the Committee to Stop This Outrageous Purge). Using a new anti-integration law rammed through last fall by Faubus himself, STOP flooded the city last week with petitions for a recall election of the Faubusite board members. In three...
Baxter, author of a research paper on the legal problems of the Suez Canal and other international water ways, has been a member of the Law School Faculty since...
...some $16.6 billion in foreign time deposits in U.S. banks, foreign-held U.S. Government securities and similar claims. In the unlikely event all foreign claimants demanded to be paid off in gold at once, the gold backing for U.S. currency would drop to $3.7 billion, a third of the legal minimum...