Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hill: "I wish the gentleman and his colleagues from Georgia would stand up on the floor of the House and take the pledge which the gentleman from Georgia wants us to take, never again to touch the flowing bowl, legal or illegal. When they do that I shall follow them and give up rum until we modify the Volstead...
Murders, killings, assaults, robberies, tortures have been committed by black and white troops, and they have made the population feel that they are deprived of all legal rights and delivered to foreign oppression...
...appeal to all those in the world who have still preserved their human feelings and respect for international law to work toward the end that legal conditions be restored in the Ruhr and Rhineland, and that, above all, the innocent Germans suffering in prisons be returned to their families and that the exiled be permitted to return home...
...ethics of the case, however, differ from the strictly legal construction. The existence of power by no means connotes its use, and for a considerable period now the Crown has relied upon the advice of its ministers, as expressed by the Premier, before dissolving Parliament. No King, under present-day conditions, would attempt to ignore or override the advice of his ministers, unless the act were incontrovertibly taken in the interests of the people, and such a situation is more than unlikely. Nothing in the present hypothetical situation presupposes that King George will depart from the strictly constitutional practice...
...Viscount Haldane of Cloan, aged 67, is a National Liberal and was Lord Chancellor under Premier Asquith from 1912 to 1915. He is probably one of the most liberal minded peers in the House of Lords, besides being a man of gigantic intellectual gifts. A foremost authority on legal matters, a scholar with numerous degrees attached to his name, and author of several important and interesting philosophical works, it is said that he makes a habit of reading a book each morning before breakfast, a task which he accomplishes with lightning rapidity, and in such a way he keeps...