Word: legalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goodhart, Knight Commander of the British Empire, is an authority on English Law and its philosophy. He is an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, and the author of a number of books on legal subjects. A native of New York, he holds degrees from Yale and Cambridge Universities...
Higher than Jail? If the Supreme Court was in fact trying to tell the U.S. public how it should react toward Fifth Amendment pleaders, then the court had overstepped its legal province to become a social arbiter. While generally approving the decision, Reston's own Times felt bound to point out editorially: "A banker who invokes the Fifth Amendment when charged with embezzlement will scarcely retain the confidence of his depositors. Labor organizations need not continue to support a labor leader who invokes the Fifth Amendment or any other amendment to avoid accounting for union funds...
Traditionally, the U.S., like other major powers, has tried to see that its citizens on duty in foreign countries are assured as nearly equal legal rights as they would have at home. This is relatively uncomplicated in European nations, where the "host-nation" juridical system usually has more of a common basis with Anglo-Saxon law, but it creates difficulties in the Far and Middle East, because the 19th century practice of extraterritoriality is identified with imperialism's toplofty ways...
...battles over youngsters who crossed bitterly contested religious boundaries were ended by legal decisions last week...
...their idle acreage into uncontrolled crops. One thing the soil bank once more proved was that, barring police-state controls, farmers will always outsmart bureaucrats. This year, for example, most farmers gave the soil bank their poorest acres, keeping their best for their price-supported crops. This was legal, if the payment reflected the poor quality of the land. Often it did not. Many farmers plowed up pastureland and planted crops, offsetting any production cutback...