Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approaching season. The Senators from Pennsylvania, George Wharton Pepper and David A. Reed, called at the White House. Mr. Pepper is sometimes referred to as " the best lawyer in the Senate "; Mr. Reed, although young, is rated as an able lawyer. On leaving the President, they "put their legal heads together and devised the following unincriminating statement...
Geldwertmark or bodenmark, meaning " gold-value mark." The Reichsbank is to be the only source of issue for new paper currency that will probably be secured by 40% to 50% of gold coverage instead of the original legal one-third...
Nichtswerthpapiermark, meaning worthless paper mark, which continued as legal tender at .00000060 cents to the mark, or 166,666,666 marks to the dollar. It seemed certain that Herr Hilferding's bill would be passed by the Reich...
While the bitterness of counsel has been almost unparalleled, Justice Wagner has been able to hold the bucking legal broncos well in hand. He is the calm, confident, dominating figure of the court room. He handles the lawyers much as a school teacher would handle unruly primary children. While authoritative in his manner, he is not autocratic or haughty. His main endeavor is to preserve order and obedience, and to have the proceedings possess the dignity of a trial rather than resemble the wranglings in a barroom...
...Senate, in addition to a profound knowledge of the law, a decided talent for convincing logical oratory, merciless in its precision and directness. He has received honorary degrees from Yale, Pennsylvania, Trinity, Pittsburgh. In addition to being a lawyer and statesman, Senator Pepper is also the author of several legal treatises of merit, and is actively interested in athletics, particularly baseball...