Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major retreat from his "purification" campaign, Prime Minister Fidel Castro restored legal gambling in all its old splendor of brocade draperies, deep carpets, clicking dice and turning wheels. Running the show from behind the scenes were the same U.S. mobsters who bossed gambling for Batista...
Died. Timothy James Mara, 71, founder of the New York Football Giants, onetime Manhattan "betting commissioner" (i.e., bookie, when the practice was legal) who became one of the principal developers of pro football; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
America is working from "the false assumption that it can operate a government with temporary or amateur people," Milton Katz '27, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law and Director of International Legal Studies, asserted last night. Katz stressed the need for a "career personnel" in his talk, "Career Implications of the International Scene," the fifth evening meeting of the 1959 Conference on Careers series...
Elected to France's Assembly, Néfissa Sid Cara pored over recent Tunisian and Moroccan codes that have liberalized the rights of women; she consulted religious authorities and legal experts; she agitated in Paris. Last week Néfissa's reforms, having been approved as one of the last of 300 decrees issued before the De Gaulle government's four-month emergency powers expired, became law. Only the Moslem Mozabite sect, whose 40,000 members are not quite ready to be yanked out of the Middle Ages, was exempted from it. For the rest of Algeria...
...program designed to help finance a $100 million housing project.* Last week, an accounting of the Cuban treasury's cash reserves was finally completed. Discovery: in five years. Dictator Batista squandered $423 million, leaving the country with only $110,710,947, or some $60 million less than the legal minimum. To rebuild the reserves, a system of import licenses was clamped on a long list of goods-with the promise of stiff controls if dollar-draining imports are not held down...