Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nearby stood a man with iron-grey hair and a flower in his buttonhole, Solicitor John G. Carpenter, whose legal duty was to send as many of the defendants as possible to the electric chair. Outside the railing sat some 200 spectators, mostly mill workers in their shirt sleeves, women with babes-in-arms, students from the University of North Carolina. The thermometer stood at 90°. Informal was court procedure. Said Judge Barnhill: "We're not much on ceremony in North Carolina but we do manage to get dignity...
Just what constitutes drunkenness is an undetermined medico-legal point. As everyone knows individuals vary in their susceptibility to alcohol. One man's, or woman's, drink may be his or her food and stimulant, and another's poison...
...Canada, by act of Parliament, prohibit clearance papers for U. S. liquor cargoes, explaining that such a prohibition would "drive the traffic underground, saddle us with heavy expenses and do our neighbors no good." Continued the Dominion official: "Liquor in Canada, whether we may like it or not. is legal merchandise. Once liquor has paid the excise, it is as free as other legal commodities ... for exportation." "...Our citizens would be corrupted [if export liquor were outlawed] the traffic would be diffused. . . . The Canadian law would be violated and the duty would be laid on the Government of Canada...
...Connecticut constitution requires a governor to sign all legislation within three days of the adjournment of a legislature. In the last ten years, Connecticut governors have approved bills leisurely, long after the three-day period. Last week the Connecticut supreme court of errors threw the state's legal machinery into serious confusion by invalidating, through a test case, 1,493 laws, large and small, which governors had thus signed unconstitutionally. Jeopardized were the gasoline tax, city charters, banking laws, the amusement tax, public appointments, salaries. One act disqualified was the act increasing the salaries of the judges who voided...
...years ago the spitball was barred except for pitchers who had already specialized in it. There are now hardly any oldtime spitballers left, so Pitcher Grimes has something of an advantage over hitters to whom the spitball is strange and disturbing. But Pitcher Grimes has also an excellent and legal curve, long years of experience, an aggressive disposition, an acute intelligence...