Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed a tough bill 286 to 126, would never agree to the watered-down Senate version. And even if it did, Dwight Eisenhower would be virtually forced to veto it because the four-page, 650-word jury-trial amendment was so loosely drawn that it would devastate the whole legal mechanism for dealing with cases under such laws as antitrust, atomic energy and securities exchange by the accepted injunction and contempt-of-court procedures (see box). It would even force jury trials for contempt of the United States Court of Appeals, which has no jury mechanism...
...Keep Germane." Dick Russell got down to the business of detail. A master of legal terrain, with uncanny insight into the minds of his adversaries, he knew where the weak spots lay. The Justice Department had advertised the civil rights bill as "moderate right-to-vote legislation," but had written into it complex injunctive powers that rested, so said the Southerners, on the "Force Acts" of Reconstruction. Dick Russell defined two outstanding targets: the bill's Part III, which granted authority for the U.S. Attorney General to get injunctions from Federal Courts to prevent abuses of all kinds...
...most conservative Republicans. Davis, who had promised to look Ike in the eye and say No if he got to Washington, carried 31 of Wisconsin's 71 counties, led by 12,000 votes until late returns rolled in from populous Milwaukee County. There many Democrats drew Republican ballots (legal in Wisconsin primaries) to vote for Kohler, helped him to a final edge of 8,600 votes...
...Something for Everyone." Working ostentatiously within the legal limits of the Indian constitution, Kerala's Communist bosses have churned out a steady flow of legislation designed, on paper at least, to give something to almost everyone. The Reds' major tactical aim: to create in Kerala an active, working base for the Indian Communist Party, a base modeled to a large degree on Mao Tse-tung's remote redoubt of Yenan, from which Mao won all China...
With Garcia nominated, and the Nacionalista Party thus returning to pre-Magsaysay normalcy, Manila sat back to await the convention of the opposition Liberal Party, headed by 62-year-old José Yulo, onetime Philippine correspondent for John Foster Dulles' legal firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, and co-author (with U.S. Army Major Dwight D. Eisenhower*) of the first law passed by the new Philippine commonwealth...