Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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America has need of friends abroad, but the brutal shooting of a poverty-stricken, scrap-picking Japanese woman by Private William Girard has made enemies instead. Insult has been added to injury now that Girard has become the recipient of that modern legal farce, the suspended sentence. Girard not only has got away with murder, but he has cost Uncle Sam precious good will...
...history, and it stirred a protesting clamor (if very little real budget cutting) on Capitol Hill. Now the Administration faces a need to add at least an extra billion or two for defense. That prospect is all the more complex because 1) the national debt is already scraping the legal debt ceiling ($275 billion), and 2) the 1957 recession will almost certainly shrink the Government's predicted tax returns, will also probably warm up tax-cut sentiments. To arrive at a balanced budget for fiscal 1959, the Administration will somehow have to chop nondefense spending in the face...
...performed only one official act, signing an extradition paper. The Cabinet tried to cope with such problems as post-office fraud scandals and sagging foreign relations, considered urging Vice President Chester Alan Arthur to take over the functions and authority of the President during his disability, but feared the legal implications. The Government drifted until Garfield died...
...heart attack. That first time everyone was excited and confused, wondering how-and even if-the Government could carry on in the President's absence. Few such questions arose last week. Says Nixon: "We had been over it all before." Bill Rogers was asked if any legal document or procedure was necessary to provide for interim administration. His answer: no. That said, the five-man group got down to business. How the U.S. Government operated last week is best explained in the work of the group's acknowledged leader, Richard Nixon...
GEORGE A. HASIOTIS, Adams; Freshman, J.V. football; Intramural sports; Hellenic Society; Jubilee Committee; House Committee; HYDC; Pre-Legal Society...