Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Human Roadblock? Next day Attorney General William P. Rogers called a news conference to explain the legal basis for the agreement as he saw it. The agreement rests, he said, upon his own constitutional interpretation that, given disability, only the powers of the presidency and not the office of the presidency devolve upon the Vice President. Even so, said Rogers, the situation would be much clearer with a constitutional amendment that would 1) require the Vice President to get majority approval from the Cabinet, i.e., from the President's own personal appointees, before declaring the President disabled...
Pardon to Death? Djamila Bouhired last week was in solitary confinement in the massively grim Barberousse fortress, overlooking the city of Algiers. All legal appeals have failed, and unless she is pardoned by President Coty of France, she will walk to the guillotine as have 127 other Algerians in the 3½-year rebellion. Outraged at the dubious procedures of her trial, French newspapers from the Communist L'Humanite to the conservative Le Figaro to the right-wing L'Aurore are protesting her coming execution. India's Nehru, Tunisia's Bourguiba, Russia's Voroshilov have...
...print an article about how clubs banded together to subsidize legal clearance for a wife charged with drilling her husband, and yet you seem to have no idea of the ramifications. I propose a counter-fund to provide legal counsel for husbands who may themselves revert, in a fit of pique, to the matrimonial-jungle law of divorce-by-firearms. Let's get this thing rolling before the girls realize that they now can rid the house of a mate as quickly and economically as kitchen garbage...
Frondizi dodged nimbly, denied that he owed anything to Perón, said it was up to Congress to decide whether exiles will be allowed to come home. When he takes over, the new President will probably be forced to allow the Peronistas some sort of legal status, but he can draw the line at the return of Perón and his chief lieutenants on the ground that they have been charged with common crimes...
...month factory worker. ¶Stuart T. Saunders, 48, executive vice president of Norfolk & Western Railway Co., became president, succeeding retiring Robert H. Smith, 69. After graduating from Roanoke College ('30) and Harvard Law School ('34), Saunders practiced law in Washington, joined N. & W.'s legal department in 1939, moved up to general counsel...