Word: legalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower called Attorney General William P. Rogers into conference in Washington at week's end to range over the nation-splitting dispute. Meanwhile, somehow, thousands of U.S. schoolchildren in thousands of U.S. communities were threading through legal hairsplitting, hoodlum threats, racist hobgoblins, across small steps of progress and bridges of hope on their annual way back to school...
...Despite the talk about airplane noises, few property owners ever bother to take legal action, and fewer still win. The U.S. Air Force, for example, has been named in 34 suits about aircraft noise. Although its planes operate without suppressors, only three suits were lost; only one of those involved pure jets...
...Bankers Anonymous." For more than a decade, Giuffrè operated informally and personally, issuing only mimeographed notes as receipts to investors. His enterprise had no legal existence, was known simply by the title of "Bankers Anonymous." (In the Italian business vocabulary, "anonymous" means "unincorporated".) Two winters ago, Giuffrè formed a limited company called ACOFI to engage in "industrial and commercial activities ... to bring about a new social order in Italy firmly based on the teachings of the church." Among his partners: Dr. Enrico Vinci, president of Italy's National Catholic Action Youth Movement and the Catholic Action...
...born U.S. Sergeant Provoo bowed deeply to his arriving captors, spoke to them in fluent Japanese, offered his humble services. A toadying informer, he bullied Americans, baked layer cakes for the Japanese, caused the execution of a U.S. captain. But after the war, the case was bungled in U.S. legal machinery, and Provoo's conviction was reversed on technical grounds by the Supreme Court. This time, the rap was no less appealing. Picked up in Lincoln, Neb. after an incident involving an 18-year-old boy, Provoo last week got a three-year sentence for sodomy...
...British law, are not contracts, and disputes over them cannot be taken to court. Instead, Britain's racing fans toss their problems to Editor Clements and the daily Sporting Life. They get straight, prompt answers, which in track circles have all the authority that courts give to true legal questions; Editor Clements guesses that to date more than $1,500,000 "and innumerable pints of beer" have ridden on his decisions...