Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the existing condition is indefensible, because with four good legal opinions on one side, and four good legal opinions on the other, the ninth Justice, alone, can arbitrarily swing the decision of the Court and overrule the expressed intentions of the nation's representatives...
...will reaffirm the sacredness of the three-mile limit for territorial water. In this manner the question of preventing rum smuggling is entirely divorced from the legal restriction of three miles on territorial waters?the restriction which Britain would not waive...
...obtaining the use of the election machinery of the States, we have been unable to find any reason arising from legal technicalities why it should be impossible. It will not, of course, be a legally constituted referendum, and for that reason we hope to hold it on a Sunday. It will be necessary for election officials to donate their services free of charge. . . . We certainly would welcome the cooperation of the Legion so that there be no cry of fraud when the bonus is voted down by the ample margin which our investigations among ex-service men the country over...
...simply a member of the International Workers of the World organization. Senator George W. Pepper of Pennsylvania, who is certainly no radical on the subject and who has investigated the several causes for these men be placed under arrest, has stated that he could find no legal justification of their apprehension...
...York and Boston brings to light once more the bad features of the existing quota regulations, plus a new quirk. Secretary of Labor Davis has allowed to land from three to four thousand newly arrived foreigners in excess of the established quota. Although he is apparently within his legal rights. European governments will almost certainly take this as a frank confession that the present law is not living up to the expectations of its framers. This is a sharp break in the prevailing immigration policy, and the first question foreign governments will ask is why their citizens in previous instances...