Word: legale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Chicago officials admitted that the city faced bankruptcy, that it had borrowed up to the legal limit on anticipated revenue, that only a Businessman's Commission could prevent financial disaster. Taxes were far behind because of assessments rank with favoritism. Fifty thousand city employes, chiefly firemen and policemen, were threatened with a prolonged suspension of pay. The extravagance of the Thompson administration was directly blamed. The Businessman's Commission, said the Chicago Tribune, was "a confession of moral and intellectual bankruptcy which is far more serious than fiscal bankruptcy...
Thirty lawyers appeared to defend Assassin Ratchitch last week; 60 to prosecute him. The legal babble approached a pandemonium. Jugoslavia is excellent tinder for an immediate conflagration. Therefore, the trial of Ratchitch was despatched with more than usual speed and sentence was passed, last week, condemning the slayer of Raditch to 20 years' imprisonment at hard labor. Croats calculated the bitter mathematics. Three men had died from the Ratchitch bullet. Twenty years' imprisonment for Ratchitch; the life of a Raditch therefore was worth exactly six years and eight months of a Ratchitch life. They fingered the revolvers in their pockets...
...Legal and statistical minds, still buzzing last week with the staggering War-debt settlement figures of $8,806,000,000, were presented with another claim involving governments. That claim...
...perfectly legal for the first two men to make an oil-production agreement within their State, and the other two men to make a similar agreement within their State, and then for the two States to join those agreements together into an interstate compact or treaty...
Both the politician and the clergy, man missed the mark completely. To say that any encouragement of college men as a class to become a self-conscious group bent on leadership will result in the curtailment of legal or economic rights now enjoyed by the majority is mere demagoguery. To say that class leadership is wrong is nonsense. Already our social system is a resultant of classes clashing as classes. Banking as a class, labor as a class, politicians as a class, lawyers as a class, all are bent on control. Why not make an attempt to wake...