Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from instances of penny-ante skulduggery that resulted in resignations, a flock of damning charges turned into at least eight court convictions. Reconstruction Finance Corp. Loan Examiner E. Merl Young was convicted of perjury. Nailed, too, were Massachusetts Tax Collector Denis Delany (bribery), Missouri Collector James Finnegan (who collected legal retainers from firms doing business with the Government), former Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph Nunan Jr. (income tax evasion), California Deputy Collector Ernest M. Schino and Nevada's BIR Chief Field Deputy Patrick Mooney (conspiracy to defraud the Government). Two later catches, White House Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly...
...that he will be there any minute. They know better, do not expect him until 6 p.m. when he usually begins the day's work, winding up with his office callers about midnight. No cheapskate, he hands out $50,000 a year to charities, spends untold thousands on legal advice...
...Hume told it in last week's Pic: "I was born with a chip on my shoulder as big as an elephant." The "aunt" who raised him turned out to be his mother, who apparently refused to accept him as her son because he had no legal father. As a lad, Hume soon developed the ethic: "If you have an enemy...
...way4When the Class of 1933 entered Harvard, the wing was being added to the sprawling mass in the North Yard that is Langdell Hall, making it the largest law library in the world. Twenty-five years later, Langdell is again becoming possessed of an addition: this time the International Legal Studies Center, an architect's sketch of which is shown above...
...made or a strategic base to be established"), wants Europe to unite in a "defense pact" against Islam instead of the Soviet Union. A sharp pamphleteer and good debater, Debré originated the famed Ecole Nationale d'Administration to train top diplomats and civil servants. As a legal expert in France's highest court, he will presumably be entrusted with De Gaulle's reform of the constitution...