Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduated from George Washington Law School; a member of the District bar, he was called upon seven years ago, when only 23, to be a special assistant to the Attorney General. That was in the day of a Democratic Administration. Working under Attorney General Palmer, young Hoover handled the legal arrangements of the cases by which the Government secured the deportation of Emma Goldman, of Alexander Berkman, of Ludwig Martens (the "Ambassador" of Soviet Russia...
...accordance with the theory of the division of Governmental authority into Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches, each entirely separate from the other, the Supreme Court makes a practice of rendering no decisions and giving no opinions except in legal cases brought under specific laws and involving specific points. As a result, Congress, when it passes a law of dubious constitutionality, is obliged to step out boldly into the dark...
...guilty of high treason (TIME, Nov. 3, 1924). The Supreme Court also up- held the previous sentence of confiscation of all his personal and entailed property, amounting to many millions of dollars. All that was allowed from the estate, before it became State property was $42,000 for legal fees to Karolyi's attorney. The report on the findings of the Supreme Court was obviously incomplete ; no mention was made of the Count's defense that he entered into communications with Hungary's ene- mies on the request of Emperor Karl. In the main, he was charged...
Without any question Count Karolyi is, in the light of unbiased legal evidence, guilty of high treason. Nothing is surer, however, that he acted with the best of intentions; nothing more certain than that he was always the good friend of the Allies and that he ought, therefore, according to the terms of the Versailles Treaty, to be immune from the sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court. But in Hungary, as in most other places, courts of justice are established to carry out the letter and spirit of the law without reference to mitigating sentimental evidence...
...Court, basing its decision on the spirit and intent of the codicil, decided against the contention of the companies and ruled that not every debt in a strict legal sense was meant. The word "forgive," declared the judge, introduced a personal note...