Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on finally admitting the logic of the Southern argument against the Nine Sociologists, even though you still shove aside logic to cling to your legal unrealism on the [race] mixing decision...
...starter except the pitchers) has been reduced to a patriotic absurdity. The poll count decreed that the National League start Cincinnati Redlegs at every position except first base. There, St. Louis' sturdy oldtimer Stan Musial managed to stand off the Redlegs' rooters. Though the balloting was perfectly legal under the somewhat farcical procedures followed by the big leagues, Commissioner Ford Frick felt compelled to step in last week and decree that the Redlegs may have only five starting positions. The All-Stars, Cincinnati public opinion notwithstanding, must have room for such as Hank Aaron and Willie Mays from...
...Wrote a legal historian: "What Shakespeare has been to literature, what Bacon nas been to philosophy, what the translators of the Authorized Version of the Bible have been to religion, Coke has been to the public and private law of England." What goes for English law goes for American, too. Catherine Drinker Bowen, who wrote about lawyer-patriots before (Yankee from Olympus, featuring Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Adams and the American Revolution), has produced an outstanding biography of Sir Edward Coke-it appeared briefly on the bestseller lists-in which greatness of personal achievement is framed...
...News, though owned by the Plain Dealer's publishers, applauded the court's decisions as upholding "the individual rights on which the American system is based." The Southern press, already convinced by the desegregation decision that the Supreme Court is heeding social and political expediency rather than legal precedent, spoke almost solidly against the latest decision, abounding in comments that amounted to: "We told...
...despite its few minor flaws, this is a lustrous production of "the greatest work in the world" and ought not to be missed. The drive from Harvard Square to the air-conditioned Stratford Theatre at legal speeds takes just a little over three hours if one uses the new Massachusetts Turnpike and takes Exit 53 from the Wilbur Cross Parkway after New Haven. And the curtain always rises...