Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President appointed Oscar Luhring of Evansville, Ind., a one- time (1919-23) Congressman, now a member of the legal staff of the Department of Labor, to the post of Assistant Attorney General...
...responsible to the Shipping Board. But as a matter of fact, ever since President Coolidge appointed Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, U. S. N., to be Chairman of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (TIME, Jan. 14, 1924), the latter has operated the fleet without little reference to the Shipping Board, its legal superior And Admiral Palmer, "dictator", has commended himself to the President by harkening to the voice of economy. (He has, for example, cut down the fleet from...
...report from Sofia had it that the last of the legal cases arising after the overthrow and killing of Premier Stambuliski in 1923 (TIME, June 25, 1923) are about to be cleaned up. At the little town of Tirnovo, 500 alleged Communists will be tried in a group, and 10,000 witnesses will be called to testify...
...opera nights the broad Avenida de Mayo, famed Fifth Avenue of Buenos Aires, purrs with the opulent Panhards, Renaults, Minervas of opera bound millionaires. The antithetically poor move slower, but in the same direction, stopping at dingy cigarrerias for fat pendulous cigars. From the Loterias, orthodox and legal vendors of chance, stream the fortunate, to cash their winnings, for a stall, a box, in La Colon...
...KENWORTHYS-Margaret Wilson -Harper ($2.00). The lives of some commonfolk are here dammed up into tragedy by the rather rickety proposition that it is dishonorable for a man to exert any extra-legal effort to recover, from his rich, reprehensible, divorced wife, the custody of their unhappy child. Author Wilson* was awarded the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the simplicity and directness of The Able McLaughlins. Simple in diction is The Kenworthys and fairly direct in presentation. But only a patient reader will penetrate the morasses of reiterative dialog, will take the scanted, arbitrary motives on faith, will 'ignore loose...