Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is a collection of essays and papers written at various times by an eminent English jurist (barrister-at-law, of the Middle Temple and the Parliamentary Bar) and is a good running story of the legal growth of the League of Nations idea from the recognition in 1914 that the Hague Tribunal and the "concert" of Europe had failed to preserve the peace...
...member of the Chicago law firm of Winston, Strawn and Shaw. Garrard Winston, one of his partners, is now Undersecretary of the Treasury. Mr. Strawn is Chairman of the Board of Montgomery Ward & Co. He is Chairman of the American Bar Asso- ciation's Committee on Legal Education. He is an ex-President of the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association. He is chief counsel for the Chicago and Alton Railroad and his firm are general counsel for the Michigan Central, the Union Stock Yards and Transit Co., the Booth Fisheries...
...leases legally made? The act giving the Secretary of the Navy general powers over the Naval Oil Reserves was passed during the Wilson Administration. Its wording is admittedly loose and subject to dispute. Whether the Secretary of the Navy had power to delegate this control to the Secretary of the Interior, or the President had the power to do so by executive order?as was done before the leases in question were made?is a legal point...
...Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, which is the oldest legal reserve life insurance company in America, reported 1923 as the greatest year in its 81 years of existence. On its books at the close of last year was $2,817,761,195 of insurance; while its assets amounted...
President Coolidge, following the latter disclosures, announced that he would have legal action instituted on behalf of the Government by special counsel, chosen from prominent attorneys of both parties. The Democrats accused the President of having taken this action only to forestall their demand for it. Meanwhile measures were proposed in both houses for revoking the oil leases. Mr. Doheny also offered to cancel his company's leases if a board of inquiry determined that they had not been entered into for the best interests of the Government...