Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Complained that "this whole miserable massacre of character'' resulted from the vengeful attitude of John Fox, former publisher of the defunct Boston Post (TIME, July 7)-and all because Goldfine had demanded payment from Fox of a legal debt. Said Goldnne: "It's not pleasant to have to talk about Mr. Fox because he seems like a sick man to me. He's crazy like...
Next question came, a little apologetically, from the Des Moines Register's Richard L. Wilson. He wanted the President's view fon Manhattan Lawyer Grenville Clark's new book, World Peace Through World Law,* which proposes setting up a world legal order by modifying the United Nations Charter. He had not read this latest Clark book, said Ike, but was familiar with other Clark writings in the same vein. Moreover, he and Secretary Dulles had discussed world-law prospects "only within the last few days. I, myself, quoting my favorite author, wrote a short chapter to conclude...
Lawbones. In Brawley, Calif., after helping Mexican field hands prepare legal action against a farm labor camp for practice of medicine without a license, Benjamin Yellen, M.D., was served with a warrant for practicing law without a license...
Delivered in the mail at the district clerk's office in Little Rock, Ark, one day last week was a 35-page legal ruling that reopened the running sore of the Little Rock desegregation crisis. U.S. District Judge Harry J. Lemley, sitting temporarily in Arkansas' Eastern District, granted a petition by the Little Rock school board to suspend racial integration at Central High School until January, 1961. Reason: while the Negro students "in the Little Rock district have a constitutional right not to be excluded from any of the public schools on account of race," desegregation has simply...
...Washington the Justice Department waited watchfully, hopeful that the reopened sore could be healed again by legal means. Preparing for the next move, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis. Meanwhile, the N.A.A.C.P. asked Judge Lemley for a stay of execution to allow the remaining seven of the original nine Negro students at Central High (one girl was expelled last February, studied in New York City; one boy graduated last fortnight, is entering Michigan State University) to stay on at Central High...