Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Replied Hoffa cockily: "What the hell, it just means another fight." It could mean a great deal more than that. If Judge Letts sticks to his guns, the ruling could lead eventually to Hoffa's being kicked out of the Teamsters' presidency. It was the most serious legal step against Teamster corruption since the Senate committee began its exposures, and, in the light of the "big week" in Miami, it came none too soon. "Now we have a blueprint to get something done," said Monitor Chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue. "We haven't even begun...
...moves into its tenth year of independence, its existence remains precarious. Some 10,000 rebels still infest the outer islands. In Sumatra 14 rubber plantations have been put to the torch in a single month. The gold backing for the printing-press currency is down to 7.85%, although the legal minimum is supposed to be 20%. Factories and industrial plants are operating at scarcely 60% of capacity because foreign exchange is lacking for raw materials and spare parts...
VENEZUELAN politics have been Rómulo Betancourt's life for the past 30 years, and for 21 of them he has been forced to live and work either outside the law or outside Venezuela. In his nine years of legal politicking, he built Acción Democrática, the strongest popular political party Venezuela has ever known, and served as the country's provisional President for two years. In office he worked out the world's first 50-50 government-company split of oil profits and oversaw the first truly free election in Venezuelan history...
...Legal Tangles. At week's end, partially as a result of the attacks on the PanLibHonCo nations. Costa Rica canceled the registration of 128 foreign-owned ships in arrears on tax payments, said it would go ahead with plans to abandon all convenience-flag registration at the end of this month. Greek shipowners agreed to negotiate with the Greek seamen's union for more jobs; U.S. unions said that they will continue to boycott...
This raises the prospect of involved legal tangles in U.S. courts. Last week, when American and Greek owners of foreign-flag vessels sought injunctions to halt picketing, judges differed on what rights they were entitled to. Wrote London's Financial Times: "The international labour boycott is a dangerous and, in principle, undesirable practise; on the other hand, these shipowners have deliberately put themselves outside national loyalties and cannot claim their protection. They cannot ask for the benefit of responsibilities they do not accept, or of taxes they...