Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reform the present burdensome, expensive legal system, restore trial by jury, abolish secret military courts, complete land purchases, foster industry and land reform and education, abolish censorship of the press...
...Mayor, Lew Shank, clambered to the platform threatening jail for boxers and promoters if ten rounds were not fought. Firpo reconsidered, toyed with Downey for three rounds. Then he remembered his deficit and forgot the state law against roughness. He pounded Downey into a state of collapse, and. vowing legal vengeance upon false Jack Druley, left for his Atlantic City camp to begin active training for" his fight with Dempsey. In Buenos Aires, Felix Bunge, Firpo patron, sheltered his protege's boxing science against the typhoon of criticism that has swept down upon it from the north. Senor Bunge...
...France, thought Leslie Jannison was going to be his own little Dream-Girl-yes, that was the way he talked. But when he came back he found her practical, efficient, modern, unsympathetic. Enter a beautiful blonde home-wrecker, Mrs. Sidol, about to be divorced and wanting Jack's legal advice, accompanied by several involved plots. When the plots are all disentangled the band strikes up The Star Spangled Banner and everybody agrees that America is God's Only-Country. Sweet vanilla ice-cream for the unsophisticated! THE ALASKAN-James Oliver Curwood-Cosmopolitan ($2.00). Men are Men in Alaska...
Lord Birkenhead's career has been at once brilliant, diverse, meteoric and successful. In his 52nd year, comparatively a young man as public servants go in Britain, he can point back to distinguished academic achievements, a rapid and dazzling ascent to the apex of the legal profession?the Woolsack, and a political career, which, if erratic and opportune, has at least been singularly free of the unspectacular. "F. E.," as Lord Birkenhead is known in Britain, can be said to have started his career at Oxford. There, in the year 1893, he was elected President of the Oxford Union Society...
...Legal circles are much concerned over the increase in divorces in view of a divorce bill to be presented to the Chamber of Deputies next Fall. According to this bill, divorce will be even easier and the guilty divorces will be able to marry the corespondents?a thing now prohibited. The lawyers feel that this is turning the courts into "divorce mills" for "grinding out decrees for small fees whenever couples agree to separate...