Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nature of things, because the great general public is reached only with the sentimental features surrounding the transactions involved, and being largely in the dark as to all the other multitudes of circumstances with which the case is sur rounded, and knowing perhaps less of the great legal principles which the experience of the ages has taught man kind must control in dealing with the rights of persons and property...
Future Action. The Government will appeal Judge Kennedy's decision just as the Doheny interests will appeal Judge McCormick's. The Supreme Court will probably settle legal differences between the decisions, but the Circuit Court of Appeals will try first. Meanwhile, both Naval Oil Reserves remain in the control of receivers...
India. Home again, he found his father bankrupt through unwise generosity to his numerous relatives, to whom the good Hindu, following religious precept, could not refuse assistance while he had wealth to give. Young Das immediately assumed his father's obligations, worked hard at the legal profession, eventually amassed a considerable fortune. And when the voice of the Mahatma, Gandhi, was heard calling upon the masses to awake, he answered, and gradually dissipated his fortune...
...After consulting his Attorney General in order to avoid any legal faux pas such as President Harding's transfer of the Naval Oil Reserves to the Department of the Interior, the President issued an executive order transferring the Bureau of Mines to the Department of Commerce (see CABINET...
...taxi-drivers guild, "The Federation of Operating Associations," which represents 8,000 cab-operators. Reports were recited of how cabmen, roused to fury by the cards, conversed in doorways, gathered in angry knots near every cabstand questioning the legality of the order, searching the Police Commissioner's legal right to force citizens to suggest to every comer what they might be. These cabmen, said reports, were pointing out that if every person were compelled to wear a placard proclaiming what he might be, college presidents, holy fathers, merchants, doctors and respected burghers would go about, perforce, with such signs...