Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent Freshman Hall robbery has brought about a feeling almost resembling panic among the University policemen. Orders have been issued to shoot on sight anyone attempting to enter a dormitory in other than the legal and recognized fashion. The idea instilled into these young and active scions of the law is not to aim at the offender's head or any damageable part of his anatomy, but attempt instead to sting him a little where it doesn't hurt so much...
...making this offer, the Government expressly stated that it recognized only its moral and not its legal responsibility. The bill provides that those investors who have held bonds since 1920 or before are to receive 5% interest on the new issue and the Government is to redeem annually $6,250,000 of the converted loan at par. Those subscribers who are practically destitute are to receive a "social rental" (apparently a small annual repayment of principal in addition to interest) of 2% of their holdings, in no case to exceed a total of $150 per annum, the annual...
...author has taken verbal photographs of the professors of law in their unguarded moments. Legal rigamarole and trite phrases of the classroom have been woven into a lifelike depiction of the Law School in grotesque...
...most poignant need according to Dean Pound, seems to be that of a proper endowment for the Chairs of Criminal Justice and the addition of others. Under this, be believes that the addition of four new professorships is imperative, the ones suggested being Legislation, Judicial Organization, Administration and Legal History...
...matter of the professor of Legislation. Dean Pound continues, "One of the chief problems of today is how to enforce the huge output of legal precepts required by the complex life of urban industrial communities. Here again is a subject in which a professorship, in a national school, in which students from every part of the country compel the teacher to consider the question from many points of view, may do great things...