Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have inadvertently reported [Feb. 9] a gravely damaging misstatement from the Sunday Express. The points of misstatement were many but one in particular which attributed to me the statement that I am alive and Christ is not was so damaging to the Christian church that I took immediate legal advice and the Express kindly and forthwith inserted a letter in which I denied making any such statement, adding that to me Christ was never more alive than he is today...
...Court has the last word on basic U.S. law-and no good lawyer would have it otherwise. Likewise, good U.S. lawyers believe that they have a professional responsibility to judge the kind of law laid down by the court, and to make recommendations for statutes that would improve the legal fabric of the U.S. Last week the American Bar Association's 246-member House of Delegates reviewed the procession of Supreme Court decisions in internal security cases, sharply recommended that Congress plug the serious loopholes opened up by court's rulings and redefinitions...
...oblige the West to accept, openly or implicitly, the permanence of the East German Communist state. To force the West's hand, Khrushchev denies that the Western powers any longer possess World War II "conquerors' rights" in Germany -which means that he does not concede them any legal justification for maintaining forces in Berlin or any legitimate interest in the future of East Germany. If there is to be any link between East and West Germany, it must1) be negotiated directly between them, and 2) ensure Russian control of East Germany...
Former Defense Minister Mohammed Ayub Khuhro, 60, long a dominating figure in Pakistan politics, was convicted of selling his 1958 Chevrolet on the black market for $12,000, almost three times the legal ceiling. He was fined $30,000 and sentenced to five years at hard labor. One of Karachi's main streets, named for him, would have to be renamed, and in prison he would get the "C" treatment instead of the "A" and "B" amenities (newspapers, private cells) usually reserved for people of his status. Shudders could be detected all over Karachi...
Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, has just published a legal text, The Problems of Delinquency, which contains articles of psychology, psychiatry, sociology, social work, and anthropology, as well as legal cases...