Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler of Montana, Democrat, ticket mate of the late Progressive candidate for President, Senator LaFollette, was last week freed of a legal charge. A Justice of the District of Columbia Supreme Court quashed an indictment against...
...Earl of Birkenhead's Law of Property. Admirers of Charles Dickens have often chuckled at his celebrated legal caricature, the suit of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which like time itself went on forever to the enrichment of generations of barristers and the utter ruin of their clients...
...Lord High Chancellor of England, Frederick Edwin Smith, Baron and Earl of Birkenhead, now Secretary of State for India, introduced this bill into Parliament. Both the Lords and Commoners felt obliged to honor the weight of legal prestige behind the measure, and passed it. When British barristers realized its revolutionary import, special lectures bearing upon its interpretation were instituted by legal bodies throughout England...
...Credit Bureau of Moscow, a firm sanctioned by the Soviet Government but independent of it. . . . There is no idea of bringing pressure to secure recognition for the Soviet Government. . . . Claims of a similar kind aggregating $40,000,000 are now being filed against U. S. insurance companies by numerous legal firms retained by private citizens of Russia...
...brooding, contrary to her usual sunny, cheerful, friendly and affectionate nature and disposition." One day he discovered that the Waxahatchie telegram had never been delivered. Blissfully reconciled, Mr. and Mrs. joined in bringing suit against the Western Union Telegraph Co. for $1 actual and $1,800 exemplary damages. The legal petition sets forth: "Mrs. Mulford has brooded, and dark suspicions and doubts crept into her mind as to whether failure to receive the message was due to neglect and lack of thoughtfulness on the part of her husband, which indicated to her a waning of affection on his part...