Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a good deal of ignorance, even on the part of officials who ought to know better, as to the legal status of Indians. All semi-Americanized, non-reservation Indians became citizens in 1891, under the Dawes Act (24 U. S. Stats, at L. 390); all tribal, reservation Indians, not theretofore citizens, became such in 1924 (43 U. S. Stats, at L. 253). The present discomfort of the Indian lies, not in his lack of citizenship, but in the fact that although a citizen he is not generally accorded the social services to which a citizen is entitled...
...rehearse his brilliant legal career would be out of place though scarcely tedious. The fact of essential interest is that he went out to India five years ago and found it seething with unrest. As everyone knows, India is now, if not*** calm, at least much calmer. The little bourgeois from London marts has performed marvels of constructive statemanship...
...indicated that the Calles Government has issued regulations covering the enforcement of the anti-alien land laws (TIME, Jan. 25) to Mexican judges, largely nullifying the alleged "retroactive" features of these laws, which have been made the subject of numerous official U. S. protests (TIME, Jan. 25 et seq.) Legal opinion had not crystallized last week as to the actual status of this legislation...
...Good Friday, Archbishop John S. Kedrovsky of the Russian Orthodox Church, warily approached his Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Manhattan. He had been thrown out bodily. With him this time were lawyers, police reserves and a legal writ which, by civil court umpiring, gave him title to his See and Seat, made him chief over more than 1,000,000 Russian Orthodox communicants and some 300 churches. His assumption of his religious duties had been thwarted by three years of bickering with Metropolitan Platon Rojdevensky (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante...
Plymouth "The Judge's Husband" with William Hodge, at 8.20. The comedy is about as obscure as the legal points...