Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some because it makes police work difficult this immunity is justified by others because it keeps government officers active in investigating the facts of offence, rather than relying on "grilling" suspects. Sir James F. Stephen, the noted English criminologist, made the classic explanation of the background of the rule, when he quoted with approval a remark about occasional violations of the immunity by Indian policemen: "It is far pleasanter to sit comfortably in the shade rubbing red pepper into a poor devil's eyes than to go about in the sun hunting up evidence." In a discriminating examination...
...federal judiciary, after 20 years of New Deal-Fair Deal rule, was made up of 248 Democrats, 59 Republicans (including 46 survivors of pre-Roosevelt days) and one judge without party affiliation. Roosevelt and Truman appointed 242 Democrats to judgeships and only 17 Republicans. Eisenhower will have nine vacancies to fill after...
...familiar strains of Auld Lang Syne swelled up from a sprawling cluster of tiny coral islands in the Indian Ocean last week, but the singers were not celebrating the New Year; they were merely singing their own national anthem. After years of autocratic rule under Sultans known as the Golden Feet,* the Maldive (rhymes with small hive) Islands had just become the world's newest republic. Queen Elizabeth herself sent the Moslem islanders a message from another island, wishing them "good luck, fair winds and calm waters." A British cruiser stood by to fire a salute, and thousands...
...Sultanate, sent abroad to Ceylon or Egypt for their education, began to chafe at the strict Sunni Moslem laws which kept them virtual prisoners at home once they reached the throne. When the old Sultan died in the 19305, the islanders decided to do away with hereditary rule and elect new Sultans by popular vote. The first elected Sultan promptly abdicated. His successor, Prime Minister Amir Didi, was perfectly willing to run the government, but he chafed at the travel restrictions. So did his nephew, Amin Didi, who was designated to succeed...
Festive Coconuts. The Portuguese, during their rule in India, tried to stamp out native Christian practices and enforce strict conformity to Latin rituals. In reaction, many Indian Christians broke away from Rome. Called "Jacobites," after Jacob al-Baradai, a 6th century Syrian bishop, they now number 800,000. Another group, the St. Thomas Christians (membership: 200,000), broke away in turn from the Jacobites, under Protestant influence, in 1837. About 1,000,000 "Romo-Syrians" have remained faithful to the Roman Catholic Church, although they use Syriac and their native language in their liturgy...