Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...providing an office, auditing and legal services, a legal address outside College rooms, and risk capital, the new institution will enable students with selling and promotion ideas to expand them greatly. A student with a good idea will be able to borrow up to $5,000 to start a new business if he can convince the Agency's directors that it would be profitable and proper to set him up selling typewriters or toe-nail clippers. Within the rather vague limits of propriety, the opportunities for future hucksters seem boundless...
...some established agents have expressed their discontent at the combine's ten per cent tariff on their profits, charging that the tax amounts to confiscation. In most cases, however, the complaint is unsound, as it overlooks the fact that the Agency provides them with legal business addresses--something which their rooms in tax-exempt University property failed to give them...
Judge Davies entered the courtroom at 10 a.m., climbed the dais and engulfed himself in a padded chair several sizes too large. Immediately before him was a group of delaying motions filed by the Faubus legal battery: that Judge Davies disqualify himself on the ground of personal bias, that service of subpoenas against National Guard officers be quashed, that the case be dismissed because it should be heard by a three-judge court...
Most practical segregationists hope only to delay integration as long as possible, by legal tactics and by convincing Negroes that they are better off in their own schools. Faubus, on the contrary, played his entire hand in about three weeks and the result is not segregation...
Although a preliminary budget for this year has been prepared, it has not yet been approved by the board of directors. Burke said that it included such items as office space, part-time secretarial work, and legal advice, but declined to make specific expenditures known...