Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trade and speculation in marketing. Small cliques of vigorous and illiterate men have rapidly risen in each city through trade in potatoes and wheat. The cabarets and hotels are again flourishing under the patronage of these nouveaux riches. As yet manufacture has remained in government hands partly because of legal and political impediments and partly because of lack of sufficiently large accumulations of private capital. As a reservoir of capital is formed from commercial profits, the industrial field will soon cease to be monopolized by the government. In agriculture, the communistic artels have shrunk to less than one-fourth...
...this effect spoke Clarence Darrow, famed defender, who crowned his unique legal reputation by emerging victorious in a recent Chicago murder trial. He was speaking against Judge A. J. Talley in a public debate on capital punishment conducted in the Manhattan Opera House, Manhattan, under the auspices of the League for Public Discussion. Said...
Last week, the U. S. press was presented with one of the hugest and hottest journalistic potatoes ever baked in Washington, D. C.?the dubiously legal opportunity of publishing the income tax figures of U. S. citizens as paid since Jan. 1, 1924.* Some newspapers had anticipated this opportunity, others had to decide speedily upon their conduct toward the luscious, but alarming, vegetable. Besides the ambiguity of the law, the papers had to consider the reactions of their readers and the dictates of policy. Would curiosity overpower the anger of the individual at seeing the private affairs of himself...
Professor Hudson rose and looked around the hall. "Has the CRIMSON reporter gone for the night?" he asked cautiously. And then stepping to the edge of the platform, he said in a low voice, "That is an important point, for between ourselves,--I don't know. And in the legal profession we are always supposed to know...
...people in the United States know whether the League has done anything, and if so, what. Many consider that it has failed entirely. Professor Manley O. Hudson of the Law School has watched its workings from the inside as member of the legal section of the League Secretariat, and from him the University will hear the facts tomorrow evening...