Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algeria is French and must remain so. Scarcely had the Assembly reconvened when right-wingers launched an all-out attack on the "federal council" clause of the loi-cadre. This, stormed Gaullist Leader (and onetime Governor General of Algeria) Jacques Soustelle, "sows the seeds of Algeria's eventual legal secession...
...whole does not need protection from the private immoralities, whether of homosexuals or of heterosexuals." But, in sum, he doubted that a clear way could be found "by which, without fatal damage to the general principle of the report, adultery, fornication and homosexual offences could be effectively restrained by legal penalties...
...Student Council last night passed several rules to improve its efficiency and knowledge of the matters it plans to discuss, although it was felt by several members that these rules will have no legal binding on the Council. The group also passed a motion to consult with ticket manager Frank O. Lunden on lost tickets...
...after a poll of members listed Ronald Davies as top choice of the state bar association. President Eisenhower appointed him to the federal bench, where he quickly won a reputation as a no-nonsense judge who could cut incisively through legal complexities. ("There's no one I'd rather have with me on a camping trip," says a friend, "but I'd take any other judge in the state if I were in court and guilty.") Then on Aug. 22, 1957, the Fargo Forum carried a brief notice tucked away on an inside page: "U.S. District Judge...
...Britain's most left-wing Laborite M.P.s after the war. But even before his Essex working-class constituents got fed up with his specious defenses of Communist grabs in Czechoslovakia and Korea and turned him out of office, Bing had begun commuting to West Africa to take profitable legal cases for several men later prominent in Ghana politics. By the time Ghana was set to go it alone, he was already established as an intimate adviser to Prime Minister Nkrumah, reportedly not only drafting bills, but also arranging for the champagne supply for last March's independence ceremonies...