Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adopted after much debate a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to examine and report on the legality of the President's order permitting the enrollment of legal officers as Federal prohibition agents...
Attorney General Sargent was hastily ordered to turn out a legal opinion on the President's order. Mr. Sargent told the press...
...Wets tried to press their advantage. Senator Bruce and Senator Edge would like a national referendum on prohibition. (It is doubtful if any legal way could be found to bring about such a referendum.) An apparently unusual event occurred?Senator Joseph T. Robinson, the Democratic leader, indorsed this idea. The current explanation of Mr. Robinson's support of the proposal is that he regards himself as a presidential candidate for 1928, and wants, to dodge the prohibition issue by a referendum or its promise...
...parties to the agreement, brought suit in equity to prevent the transfer of the property to Mrs. Curtis. For four years the case was fought. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People supported Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Corrigan against Mr. Buckley, and other organizations joined in the legal struggle against this type of "segregation"?one of the great issues which those who favor the Negro are fighting...
Such things may well appeal to laymen. But I have high hopes that they will appeal to the bar also. For in the end the results of legal research must aprove themselves to the bar or the investigations will have been in vain. And a program of legal research may well appeal to the bar, if for no other reason, because through research we may most assuredly preserve the common law as the law of our several states and the conspicuous bond of union among English-speaking peoples...