Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the British, who decided that only rabbis could perform Jewish marriages in Palestine. Israel's Minister of Religion, aged (72), Judah L. Fishman, set out the counter-demands of the religious groups: enforcement of the Sabbath, adoption of biblical law as the basis for Israel's legal system, and government observance of dietary laws. Said he: "I don't expect to go looking into the cook pots of all the housewives of Israel, but state institutions should have kosher kitchens." He felt that the new state should "have the stamp of Judaism upon...
...when The Iron Curtain was shown in Havana and Caracas. But Uruguay is a republic where order and freedom of expression are part of the national creed.* Even the Uruguayan Communist party, which polled 4% of the votes at the last presidential election, has been accepted as a legal, peaceful political movement...
Psychiatry recognizes two main types of mental illness, although there is no sharp distinction between them. The man who wanders so far from reality that he lives in a daydream is a psychotic, suffering from, a psychosis (psychiatrists consider "insanity" an oldfashioned, legal term, without medical meaning). The man who cannot be happy with his environment or himself - who suffers from his own slanted view of the world - is suffering from a psychoneurosis (neurosis for short). A psychotic is much sicker; but both psychotics and neurotics can be cured...
...forces of New Dealism were gathering ominously to prevent him from being re-elected--thereby undermining the whole system of parliamentary government. When the CIO Political Action Committee was formed in early 1944, he sought in vain to connect it with the Administration. The PAC was not only legal, but it made things so hot for Dies down in Texas that he decided not to try for another term. Glumly muttering imprecations, he "retired," and his fellow-southerner, John Rankin, took over...
...Legal restraints," wrote Lawyer Dawson, "will never stop newsmen from supplying what they think the public wants, as long as we still have freedom of the press. Restraints, to be effective, must be imposed by the gentlemen of the press and radio themselves." A man's only hope of exercising his right of privacy-is "to live a happy humdrum life and stay out of the way of newsmen...