Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often had played the politicians' game; he had even accepted Talmadgeite help four years ago to get himself elected. But he had left Georgia the heritage of a good, and also well advertised, administration. He had left the state a new constitution, even though there was that legal hole in it through which Hummon had been able to charge to power...
...company property had to be paid for. Suddenly, the genie of portal-to-portal pay hovered, mountain high, not only over small Mt. Clemens Pottery, but over all industry. The oracular Court gave a hint, however, on how the monster might be lured back into the bottle. Under the legal doctrine of de minimis ("the law does not concern itself with trifles"), all small amounts of makeready time were to be disregarded. With that, the Court handed the case back to Judge Picard...
Entitled "Interpretations of Modern Legal Philosophies," the volume was planned for publication at a birthday dinner in October, 1945, but because of the war, its appearance was held up until...
...violated the rules of civilized warfare, while the U.S. and Canada clung to the Nürnberg view that aggressive war was itself a crime. Pragmatic ex-Gangbuster Keenan somewhat naively quoted Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition, unabridged, 1943, in an effort to establish a legal definition of aggressive...
...rnberg in the world's unwritten common law: "If there is no law now under which to try these people, it is about time the human race made some" (TIME, Oct. 21). Perhaps the most striking of several legal opinions, diligently gathered by Keenan, was one by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo (1934): "International law . . . has at times, like the common law within states, a twilight existence during which it is hardly distinguishable from morality or justice till at length the imprimatur of a court attests its jural quality. The gradual consolidation of opinions and habits has been...