Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Besides, it complicated the payroll of the hospital, which is under the Interior Department. Mr. Work asked Comptroller General John R. McCarl for an opinion on the case- Mr. McCarl having authority, since he watches over payrolls and all other disbursements from the public purse. Mr. McCarl consulted his legal advisers and decided against the nurse's maiden name. Said...
John W. Davis resigned not once, but four times. He was preparing himself for the campaign. He resigned from his law firm of Stetson, Jennings, Russell and Davis−&the firm which has won him the displeasure, real or figured, of radicals, because it handles some legal business for J. P. Morgan...
Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard University Law School: Differentiated between law as "the regime of social control through legal institutions" and law as "the body of legal precepts which obtain for the time being in a particular society." Declared most social and economic progress had come about through discontent with law of the latter definition. Urged further continuous creative effort to keep legal precepts abreast of the times, thus assuring further progress...
...minutes later closing his shop and scurrying off to the bank upon which the check is drawn; he never by any chance deposits it in his own bank-if he has one. This is partly due to the fact that French law only allows him 24 hours to make legal declaration of default on checks and commercial bills. The Government has proposed, in order to help avoid further inflation, to popularize the check by passing...
...Vice President, and the World added that the latter is "commonly believed to be a heavy stockholder." The World admitted, near the end of the article, that this supposition was "not of public record." At any rate, the Department of Justice is certain to have stirred up a real legal battle, in attacking a group of corporations, including the major companies of Standard Oil. As for politics, the suit should be first aid material for stump speakers, especially if Charles G. Dawes should prove to have any connection with the Pure Oil Co. The question will be extremely technical...