Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anything Can Happen (Paramount] might be subtitled George Papashvily Discovers America. What does happen: 1) George Papashvily (José Ferrer), a Don Quixote in a caracul cap, arrives...
...human knowledge in its particular department of science has been equaled by no other institution of its kind in the United States and by few in the world. Our equipment is the best." Throughout Pickering's time the study of the physical properties of the stars was paramount...
...editorial claimed the federal government owned this land because of the Supreme Court's statement that the government had "paramount rights" in it. The attorney general specifically asked the Court to say that government had "proprietary rights". The Court refused to do this and instead made the inconclusive statement of "paramount rights". Clearly, "paramount" does not mean "proprietary". The Court did not say who owned the land, and that question is still a legal dispute...
...question of who owns the marginal lands does indeed remain in dispute, but the crucial issue is actually who will manage the land and use the oil revenue. Since paramount rights in the areas under consideration are vested in the United States, an attempt to grab them for the use of the three separate states involved is "robbery". Despite assumptions to the contrary, the Supreme Court declared in the California case of 1947 that the states had never held title to the submerged land...
...federal oil lease off-shore California in 1936, he opened a sixteen year legal battle for control of this oil. Ten years later President Truman wisely vetoed the first Congressional attempt to give away the land. Finally, the Supreme Court decided in 1947 that the Federal government had paramount rights in this off-shore area...