Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Settlement of Duty. Last week, after long and hard dickering among legal experts and art connoisseurs, he reached a settlement with the Treasury by which, as a $3,360,000 installment on his inheritance tax, he will hand over Hardwick Hall, one of the finest Elizabethan mansions in existence, together with its 934-acre park, and eight major works of art from the Chatsworth collection, including works by Rembrandt, Memling. Holbein and Van Dyck. The paintings will go to British museums. Hardwick Hall will be administered by the National Trust, and be open to the public four days a week...
...economic woes and weaknesses, the nation's planners had brought forth a second five-year plan so overambitious that it was rapidly exhausting India's sterling balance in London. Already, Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari told Parliament last week, the government has been obliged to lower the legal minimum sterling backing for India's currency from $840 million to $630 million...
...music; they fly in jet planes and guided missiles to record test data; in the first earth satellite, a tape recorder will read dozens of instruments and transmit the data to earth. Using magnetic tape, giant computers compile payrolls and forecast sales. Entire libraries and millions of legal documents are being tape-recorded. This fall CBS and NBC will replace their kinescopes with tape recorders to rebroadcast TV programs so that they can be shown at the same hour across the U.S. with all the clarity of the live broadcast...
...damages in return for small blood samples (less than two teaspoonfuls) taken from them to test their sobriety after highway accidents. Fred Pfizenmaier, 50, of Clay Center, asked $10,000 for his blood, which tested at 185 mg. of alcohol in 100 cc. of blood (150 mg. being the legal intoxication line). But Alva Nichols, 41, of Eldorado, wanted $75,000 for his sample, which tested at a riotously drunk 285 mg. after a three-car crash in which one man was killed. Purpose of the suits: to test Kansas' law which says that anybody driving on the state...
...Liberal Member of Parliament, Jowitt was Attorney General in the second Labor government (1929-31) of Ramsay MacDonald, Solicitor General (1940-42) in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, Lord Chancellor (1945-51) in the Cabinet of Labor's Clement Attlee, writer of whip-witted prose on legal subjects. Most notable of his works: The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, in which he concluded that Defendant Hiss (see PEOPLE) was unjustly convicted of perjury, the case a monument to feckless U.S. justice and the jury system...