Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forte is her naturalness. She has refused to be dazzled by her position and has gone on being herself. Florence Harding tried to act up to her job and Edith Gait Wilson assumed extra-legal prerogatives; but neither was popular...
...Harrison: "To paraphrase a legal term, may I say, 'One who comes into court must come with clean hands.' But in Mellon he has a friend who knows how to sue. My friend from Michigan [Mr. Couzens] will agree to that...
...accepted the Russian gift in any case, because he had personally stopped the Soviet money transfer under the Emergency Power Act. Sir William magnanimously added that, although the Emergency Power Act was still in force, he would not stop money transfers to the Miners' Federation, because their strike was "legal," whereas, in his opinion, the "general strike...
...Legal attempts to reduce human affairs to the common denominator of justice are commendable in principle but occasionally laughable in practice. In a neighboring state, the Attorney Ceneral prosecuting a liquor case rhetorically asks, "Who is stronger, the bootleg ring or the state of Rhode Island?" only to have the jury return a verdict of not guilty. And to pitch the question on a more adventurous plane, even now a governmental quibble arises concerning payment of duty on pictures taken by Byrd at the North Pole. Thus does the energy and initiative of aerial explorers whittle down...
...expected that by the means of these four lectures, the exact dates of which have not yet been announced, members of the School will get interesting side lights on the activities of various prominent lawyers in the different fields of legal work...