Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crothers will take as his subject "Theology and Law". He will talk mainly from a theological point of view, aiming to present to his audience the religious side of a question heretofore treated in these lectures largely from the legal viewpoint...
...agreement to permit legal sales under rule of The Hague Convention, of heroin and laudanum (opium products). (The U. S. delegation, here joined by the British, wanted both these drugs barred as being medicinally dangerous...
...malefactors of great wealth" and those which had grown great simply because they were captained by capable business men. The vital quality of big business is apparent from the fact that, since "dissolution." most of the "trusts" have prospered, indicating either that the old practices were unnecessary or that legal attack was ineffectual...
Whether or not this situation actually constituted a legal or other monopoly, it undoubtedly would furnish a convenient talking point for our trustbusting statesmen, and the General Electric knew it. Therefore, while Senator Norris fulminated in Washington, the company's Board of Directors met, and voted to turn over the Electric Bond & Share Co. to a new corporation, whose stock would then be distributed share for share to the existing General Electric stockholders. This was, in a general way, the method adopted by the Government in breaking up the old "Standard Oil Trust" in 1911; its employment...
...World goes on to criticize the present involved and inefficient method of legal censorship. Its criticism of the old method is very well founded; but the improvements it suggests are just as noxious as the old evils. Twelve "good men and true" are to be the arbiters of New York's theatrical morals. What their special qualifications will be is left unsaid. They are probably the same as those which so eminently fit the average New York court jury for its legal task...