Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business of congressional investigating will largely stand or fall on the issue of a legal affray which started at Washington. The case of Harry Ford Sinclair, charged with contempt for refusal to answer ten questions propounded by the Senate Public Lands Committee, came up in the District of Columbia Supreme Court...
...knows how to talk in terms of the theatre--and that is not to talk too much. The subtlety of the dramatist is never shrouded by the verbosity of the translator, and it is not the latter's fault that you are at first plunged into the long-winded legal history of the famous Gregor vs. Pruss case. However, you soon emerge with the blessed realization that it doesn't matter a whit if you did not follow it all. In only goes to show that the wheels of justice grind slow and exceeding fine in Czecho-Slovak, as they...
...Italy and citizens of Norway and let in the bull-baiters and toad-eaters from Mexico?" But the border terror was taken more seriously in the House. Immigration Commissioner Husband reported to the Immigration Committee that the illegal admissions on the border, were five times as great as the legal; that Canadian smugglers did regular business in Asiatics at $500 a head; that whereas he had 61 officials on the borders, he needed 486 in order to stop 75% of the illegal immigration. Representative Johnson, author of the Immigration Bill, promptly went to the floor of the House, declared that...
...deny first that my right, proper and legal name is Sol Horowitz and I further deny that my pawnshop is at 12 S. Orange...
...solemnly swear that my right, proper and legal name is Solomon Horowits and further swear that my pawnshop is at 12½ S. Orange...