Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress will be asked to remove legal barriers to "the exchange of appropriate technological information with friendly countries...
Historically, pre-Sputnikly speaking, hopefuls for the nomination to the presidency have been drawn from three principal sources: the legal profession, sundry political assortments, heroic military personages. Now as we enter into the active Sputnik era, with its many scientific ramifications, is it not wisely incumbent that we seek future presidential nominees from the ranks of the scientific professions...
...bosses were furious, astonished. Even victorious France and Britain were maintaining stiff controls to ration their meager austerity. From existing legal supplies each West German could expect to get one pair of shorts every 18 years, one pair of socks every 29 years, a suit every 98 years. "How dare you relax our rationing system when you have a shortage of goods?" raged one officer. Replied Erhard jubilantly: "I have not relaxed rationing; I have abolished it." To his countrymen he proclaimed: "The only ration ticket now is the mark." He asked for an interview with U.S. General Lucius Clay...
FAIR-TRADE LAWS "are dead," says Discounter Stephen Masters, president of Masters Inc. (1956 sales: $45 million), which just won important legal battle. Supreme Court upheld lower-court decision that Masters' mail-order house in Washington, D.C., which has no fixed-price law, can sell goods below fair-trade prices in New York State, which does have such a law. Discounters can now ship cut-rate products by mail...
...June, he noted in his annual report, will be at the peak of their professional eminence and responsibility in 2001. "At that time, the Dean commented, "they will probably draw little from the specific information which they received here. [However,] they will be still drawing heavily on their basic legal training," including "the utility of accurate lawyer-like English composition...