Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Governor Small pardoned them. There is little doubt that he had no legal right to do so, but the State Supreme Court will not convene until December and nothing can be done meanwhile. This act, said the Chicago Daily Tribune, "adds a cubit to Small's colossus of nerve . . . The executive clemency is extended to jailed citizens whose virtue is their silence on the methods by which a Governor was acquitted of embezzlement...
...Privy Council, five justices in business attire, in a 30-foot London room, decide legal rights affecting one-fourth of the world's population. The procedure is extremely simple and uncomplicated. Unlimited argument is allowed on cases before the court, and oftentimes immediate oral decisions are rendered to the waiting counsel. Mr. Beck said: "Of all courts that I have seen, it is the simplest in form and procedure." There are no formal or lengthy " briefs," although there is a printed summary of the essential facts and the legal points involved, which is called " the case." The arguments...
...opening of the Legislature, the Governor General called its leaders to him, Manuel Quezon (President of the Senate), Speaker Roxas of the House and Senator Osmena, former Speaker. He read them Mr. Weeks' message. On behalf of the Coolidge Administration, it confirmed in whole and in part the legality of the Governor's acts protested by the Collectivist Party (TIME, July 30, Aug. 6). It said that there was no question except the legal question. Any hopes that Quezon and Osmena had of their attitude's favorable reception in Washington were completely dashed...
While the Chaplin case comes to the legal fraternity in an entirely new guise, it seems reasonable to believe that the mere circumstance that the schemers have concocted a kind of deception heretofore unheard of in jurisprudence is no reason why a court of equity should be either unwilling or unable to deal with the situation. The plain intent was, of course, to palm off Amador as another Chaplin, or as Chaplin himself, and this very kind of thing has been forbidden repeatedly by the Court of Appeals of New York State. (White Studio, Inc. v. Dreyfoos...
...class reunion 25 years later he gave the address, speaking before an audience in which there were many legal men and lawyers. He showed the bravery and steadiness which he had struggled so hard to acquire when, reading his speech, he said. It is a lamentable fact, but a fact, nevertheless, that men go to law school for the purpose of learning how to steer corporations as near the edge as possible without going over. The audience showed its displeasure in his remarks and he with the sarcastic irony in which he delighted, said. 'The applause seems luke-warm...