Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characters in this film were not fictitious--it would be alarming," states the epilogue to another Boulting Brothers British comedy currently on Exeter St., Brothers in Law. Perhaps, but the legal world would be more interesting...
...thin story of the mis-adventures of Roger Thursby, fresh from barrister school and afflicted with stage fright when he enters a court-room. Roger, played by Ian Carmichael, shares chambers with another fledgling barrister, named Henry Marshall (Richard Attenborough). Together they pursue not only their legal careers, but an upstairs professional model by the improbable name of Sally Smith...
...formidable armory of ancient muskets, hunting rifles and outmoded carbines. Then they holed up in an abandoned iron foundry only 50 yards from the Italian border, and on a rickety table lighted by a candle stuck in a bottle, wrote out a proclamation declaring themselves San Marino's legal government. "This is a great historic hour," said the new government, as the blue-and-white flag of the republic was hoisted aloft to flutter atop a rusty boiler on the roof of their new capitol...
...emphasized from the day of the Supreme Court's school-integration ruling in 1954 that there could be "no choice between compliance and defiance." Far from urging integration, the Gazette, which had helped elect Orval Faubus in two gubernatorial campaigns, backed his efforts to postpone desegregation by "moderate," legal means. But when Faubus switched last month from legalistic buck-passing to outright defiance, Harry Ashmore's conscience-pricking editorials (more than 40 so far) repeatedly warned of the tragic consequences. When the mobs moved into the streets around Central High School, it was to Democratic Editor Ashmore that...
...legal issue hinges on the U.S. charge that General Aniline's parent, Interhandel, was really a front for Nazi Germany's I. G. Farben. But Swiss-based Interhandel and 1,500 of its stockholders proclaimed that they were not German-controlled; in a maze of litigation they tied up persistent U.S. attempts to sell off General Aniline stock to the public. U.S. lower courts and a Federal Court of Appeals turned down Interhandel's plea for a return of the stock. The loss in court was largely the Swiss government's own fault; its stiff banking...