Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of Commerce Hoover and others favor it, yet a good struggle over the measure is anticipated. For it is said the Shipping Board does not want its power curtailed, that its apparent acquiescence is to be used as argument against the legalization of the separation, on the ground that such a step is unnecessary. It is asserted that the Board is willing to make concessions by resolution, provided it has the power later to override the Corporation and interfere. Members of the Board, through their friends in Congress, are said to be preparing to oppose the Administration...
...Philadelphia Academy of Music, before 3,500 eager citizens, John W. Davis, at that time not the ex-candidate for the presidency, but the ex-Ambassador to Great Britain, stood on the platform and delivered a piece of paper, a check good for $50,000 of Mr. Bok's legal money, to Professor Charles Herbert Levermore...
...Judge, "legal hairsplitter" (as the Republicans called him) "honest, impartial, fearless patriot" (as the Monarchists called him) found that Editor Rothardt was guilty of insulting the President, sentenced him to three months in jail and payment of all costs of the trial. Not content with sentencing the defendant, he proceeded to sentence the plaintiff by declaring that whether or no Herr Ebert joined the strikers to end the strike was immaterial, that he was technically guilty of treason -the President of the German Republic was a traitor. The Judge had killed two birds with the proverbial stone...
...young man wants to write. His family fly into rages. With the assistance of a young visitor and a legal technicality, the young man snatches the family purse-strings. He wriggles triumphantly from the bottom to the top of the family tree...
...Inside Story of the Paris Divorce Mill, by one Frazier Hunt, is the leading article in the current Hearst's International. In it, the author tells how "a squat fat French legal man, the sign on whose door read: "Divorce Judgments in 1½ Months," promised him for two thousand francs ($100) a divorce in from four to six weeks "if his wife made no fuss." When Mr. Hunt stated that his wife was in the U. S., the lawyer replied: "As far as your wife is concerned, we will simply get her a fake certificate of domicile...