Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treaty concluded by the Sultan of Morocco can apply to Tangier unless concurred in by the local government (see following paragraph). Capitulations (extra territorial rights) are abrogated; natives enjoying foreign protection will be under the jurisdiction of European mixed courts. Moroccan francs and Spanish pesatas continue to be legal tender. The Debt Control Commission is to disappear, the Moroccan Government having guaranteed the interest payable on the 1904 and 1910 loans, the Tangier Harbor bonds and the Tangier-Fez Railway bonds, total of more than 4,000,000 francs a year...
...journal recently printed the following scurrilous sentence: "The President of the Republic is the living incarnation, the pride-swelled descendant of the great legal bandits who ruined our ancestors by usury, by monopoly, by the crafty putting into execution of all the processes which the law, made by them and for them, put into their hands...
...Baby" McLeod introduced a bill to make it a legal offense for parents to fail to deposit with the Government, within 30 days after the birth of a child, photographs of his or her fingerprints and footprints. This measure would prevent confusion of offspring in hospitals...
...Ryan's subject was "The Economics of Usury and Usury Laws." His thesis sets forth and amplifies the distinction between moral and legal usury. "The true solution of the usury problem," said Mr. Ryan to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Is first to locate where moral usury exists and then to set up the proper legal machinery for measuring it. This is now being done in some twenty states which have enacted the Uniform Small Loan...
...race by cutting off at its source the multiplication of the unfit or the unfortunate. Public clinics in the Netherlands and other countries, operating without Government opposition, have apparently had beneficial effect. Most advocates of birth control do not wish to remove all restrictions, but simply to make it legal for properly qualified persons, as physicians, public health officers or nurses, to give information to all married persons who desire...