Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Pusey has selected seven Law School professors to conduct a study of legal education at the University. The committee will spend three years exploring the subject and formulating recommendations, A. James Casner, Weld Professor of Law and chairman of the group, said yesterday...
...prickings of conscience have finally moved the Legislature to consider the case," Schlesinger said. He expressed hope that the Legislature will establish a committee of legal experts to study the problem. "We might succeed after four or five tries," he added...
...casino operators in the Carson City-Reno-Lake Tahoe area were gnawing the manicured arcs right off their well-kept fingernails. For neither the first nor the last time in the history of Nevada, the only state in the U.S. where gambling is legal in nearly all its forms (prohibited: dog racing, jai alai), an organized band had figured out a way to fulfill the fondest dream of hundreds of thousands of lemon-loathing laymen: hitting the jackpot on the slot machine, otherwise known as the one-armed bandit...
...conferred" with the Immigration Service on the expulsion order and agreed that it "is in accord with the best interests of the U.S." Perez Jimenez' Miami lawyer predicted that he could keep his client in the U.S. "for at least two or three years" before all legal devices are exhausted...
Certainly the most famous and perhaps the most beautiful baby born last week was a Jewish girl named Elisheba Rachel Taylor. For according to Jewish legal theory, every convert is "a newborn child." And last week 27-year-old Film Star Elizabeth Taylor became a Jew and acquired a ceremonial Jewish name: Elisheba, the Hebrew version of Elizabeth, and her own favorite Biblical heroine, Rachel, the "beautiful and well-favored" wife of Jacob (Genesis...