Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only three days before Girard walked up the gangplank, the Japanese Ministry of Justice was still weighing legal protests and public clamorings that Judge Kawachi had been too lenient, that Girard ought to be haled in for retrial. Candy Girard, onetime B-girl, even got notes from Japanese suggesting that she ought to go commit harakiri. But the Justice Ministry decided in the end to let Girard go home. Said the ministry, with remarkably broad understanding of the case's basic meanings: "We pay our respects to the [U.S. Supreme Court] verdict that gave Japan jurisdiction over the case...
...that they should. So did many medical men and most of the intelligentsia. Last week, before galleries crowded with spectators (most of them women), Britain's House of Lords gravely debated the Wolfenden recommendations. "Many hesitate," said Labor's Roman Catholic Lord Pakenham, "lest an act of legal toleration be mistaken for one of moral approval, [but] when we reflect on what torture is being suffered by many decent citizens-along with others less respectable, of course-I hope that we remember the injunction, 'Blessed are the merciful.' Let us take advantage of a point...
...Civil Rights Commission remains one of the potentially strongest features of the hard-fought rights bill. Its power to investigate, inform, and initiate legislative suggestions in the field of civil rights can prove a more effective weapon against intolerance and organized bigotry than the legal sanctions recently obtained...
...result of these policies, the NAACP has come under a rather intense legal fire in many of the southern states, which appear determined to hound and harass that organization out of existence. The NAACP has been a prime mover in bringing school segregation cases into the federal courts to get specific desegregation orders, and because of this legal activity against school districts which refuse to comply with the Supreme Court ruling, the association has been branded as subversive and dangerous...
...University will begin construction of its million-dollar building to house the International Legal Studies Center within the next few weeks, Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Faculty of Law, announced yesterday...