Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that negotiations are in their own interest, the foregoing rejection will not prevent them. We shall then, however, come with quite a different status to the conference table than if we had swallowed this humiliation. Come what may, in any event we shall not have furnished a legal basis for our annihilation but shall have saved our nerve and honor for the future...
...introduce commercial arbitration in certain trades in place of court proceedings in commercial disputes. The Chicago plan differs from that in vogue in New York, in that arbitration is not compulsory but may be declined on payment of " liquidation damages." Efforts to have the state legislature furnish a definite legal basis for the plan have not yet been successful...
...little deranged. Certainly Governor Smith is a close enough student of Constitutional law not to endorse an act which would have a flavor of secession, as some zealous prohibitionists have claimed of this repeal. In fact the bold note which be struck in his special message is evidence that legal considerations, once cleared up, had no further influence upon his decision. What did influence his decision in the light of the decision, becomes almost a metaphysical problem...
WASHINGTON: By decision of the Attorney General it is legal for women to wear trousers where and when they please...
Universal suffrage is in force in Sweden; every man and woman over 23 years of age, and not under legal disability, has the right to vote...