Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris the mayor shopped, dined with the Duchess of Westminster, assured Octogenarian Sir Charles Mendl that he looked younger than ever, and delighted French haberdashers by wearing a pleated shirt with his dinner jacket. He was impressed with Paris' anti-horn-honking regulation, but feared that such a rule could not be enforced in New York without extra police...
Those who give the FBI information about Government employees have the law's promise of secrecy if they want it; the person under investigation does not necessarily know who said what about him. In 1951 the Supreme Court split 4 to 4 when asked to rule that the Government could not dismiss an employee for security reasons unless it allowed him to confront the persons who had given information about him on which the Government based its decision. This spring the issue again reached the highest court (TIME, May 2), in the case of Yale's Professor...
...joke. An aide decided on his own to ignore the explicit rule against any talk with Russians, took the message and in two hours it was transmitted to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. In it Soviet Russia declared that "it would be honored to receive in Moscow in the near future the Chancellor of the German Federal Republic Herr Adenauer . . . to discuss the establishing of diplomatic, trade and cultural relations between the [two countries] and the examination of questions connected with it." Reading the note in his office overlooking the Rhine, the granite face of old Konrad Adenauer split into...
...down the flag of strict ethical principle by which the A.M.A. had long sought to keep doctors (with rare and regulated exceptions) from owning drugstores or peddling pills, trusses, crutches or spectacles; adopted in its place (by vote of A.M.A.'s House of Delegates) a much more flexible rule: "It is not unethical for a physician to prescribe or supply drugs, remedies or appliances as long as there is no exploitation of the patient...
...famed Triumvirate, or rule of three, had begun, and at first Caesar did not find three a crowd. Caesar was 39 before he had an active troop command, 41 when he began his conquest of Gaul; yet he proved a legendary general...