Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East was warming up, and old familiar crisis words-Que-moy, Matsu-were in the headlines. At home, the drive to give Negroes their lawful rights in public schools needed only a spark to start fire. Dwight Eisenhower, wearied by months of foreign policy, domestic economy, legislative and legal problems, was not at his best...
...wanted to say, as he had said many times before, was that Americans should exercise patient judgment in trying to understand one another's problems. Indeed, just 90 minutes before he went to his press conference, the President had conferred with U.S. Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin. U.S. Legal Spokesman Rankin had told the President, point by point, what he intended to present as the position of the U.S. Government at the Supreme Court's Little Rock hearing next day. That position was for broader action against segregation than even the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
...Senate finally approved the appointment of W. Wilson White, 52, as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's new civil rights division. White's confirmation had been stalled since February by Southerners, infuriated because White fixed the legal basis on which President Eisenhower sent troops into Little Rock...
...swirling on the dry. sandy earth, shouted "Sonora for the Sonorans!". he raised the Mexican flag over the last of the great Mexican latifundios (big estates) and took it from the family of Texan William C. Greene, which had owned it for 58 years. The Sonora Legislature declared a legal holiday and congratulatory wires flooded the desk of President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines. Exulted Mexico City's Universal: "Cananea is at last freed...
...Showman Mike Todd's widow, Elizabeth Taylor, 26, and Mike Jr., 28. Todd's son by his first marriage, joined in an intricate legal maneuver by which, in effect, they sued themselves for $5,000.000. They asked that amount in damages from 1) two small Jersey corporations that owned and operated the plane in which Todd was killed last March, and 2) Michael Todd Co. (chief stockholders: Liz and Mike), which shared in "maintaining and controlling" the plane. Suing their own company was a fairly standard legal gimmick to provide funds for Liz's 15-month...