Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Federal Judge Morris A. Soper interpreted this to mean that the home juicemaker was exempt from the arbitrary definition that ½% alcoholic content makes a beverage "intoxicating." For beverages on sale, he held that the ½% criterion was legal and unassailable, but within the walls of a man's home what he made exclusively for his own use was not to be so strictly governed...
...Author. Harvey O'Higgins is a man of 48, tall and slender, with keen, sensitive features and a quiet grey eye. He was born and educated in Canada, of British parentage. A legal career had originally been planned for him : but the lure of the pen led him into newspaper and magazine work which, in turn, took him to New York. The Youth's Companion was his first literary medium. His chief previous publications are Prom the Life, Some Distinguished Americans, The American Mind in Action, The Secret Springs...
Upon the second anniversary of the triumphant entry into Rome of the Fascist legions, the Fascist national militia, which for two years has been an extra-legal army owing allegiance only to Signor Benito Mussolini as the Dux of Fascismo, swore allegiance to King Vittorio Emanuele and ceased to be a purely party organization. At Milan, Benito's home town, Black Shirts, as the Fascist Militia is known, concentrated in large numbers to swear fealty to their King. The most spectacular parade was, however, at Rome. In the vale of the Aventine and Palatine hills, between the Colosseum...
...Wellman, in the course of 40 years of active practice, has tried more than 1,000 cases before juries. He is also deeply versed in legal bibliography. In the present volume, he has drawn with discrimination upon both his experience and his learning...
...charge of Dr. Rachelle S. Yarros, of Hull House. An attempt to open a clinic some time ago was combated by the Health Commissioner, Dr. Herman Bundesen. The present clinic charges a nominal fee, and thus avoids the necessity of a city license. It is reported that the legal department of the city administration is now at work on an opinion as to whether or not the clinic may operate under the new scheme...