Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert M. LaFollette, resting in Washington in preparation for a dervishlike close to his campaign, was prompted to excoriate the California courts, when the Supreme Court of that state in a 4-3 decision refused for legal reasons to accept the names of the 13 LaFollette electors to be placed on the ballot in the Independent column. Said...
...make money." In Washington, Mrs. Mae Nolan, of California, only woman member of Congress, announced that, in the event of the Washington Baseball Club's winning the baseball championship of the world, she will introduce a resolution in Congress to make Walter Johnson's* birthday a legal holiday throughout the District of Columbia. In Manhattan, John K. Tener, one time Governor of Pennsylvania, one time President of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, one-time baseball pitcher, spoke as follows to a newspaper reporter: "Suppose the manager or owner of a big league baseball club suddenly developed...
Candidate Davis. ". . . He is one of life's fair-haired boys. . . . When he sells his legal service he does not throw in his soul for good measure. . . . Mr. Davis' mind is as smooth and round as his face...
...Resolutions were passed concerning legal assistance to the poor; concerning a conference to be held in November to restrict the growth and distribution of opium...
...guilty man chooses to exercise his constitutional right to employ legal counsel, would a lawyer, in his professional capacity, be justified in refusing his services? Rather, in granting them, might he not be serving the cause of justice equally with the attorney for the prosecution, since justice requires that the accused man be permitted a fair trial." The case is something like that of a debater who for purposes of discussion? supports a proposition that he disbelieves. Thus both sides of the question are ably presented, so that a fair-minded audience can arrive at a just decision...