Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Summer, all the Railroad Brotherhoods vowed revenge. They got up a movement to impeach Mr. Daugherty for malfeasance in office, but it collapsed without proving a single charge against him. Still they kept up a guerrilla shop strike on many roads and fought the issue with the best legal talent at their command, hoping to prevent the Attorney General from making the injunction permanent. Now-just as their case was about to be heard-the lawyers for the shopmen have run up the white flag and withdrawn from the case, thus allowing it to go by default...
...English Government, with its usual deliberation, has done nothing, and probably will do nothing until its legal experts have examined the Supreme Court ruling. The French Government, more impetuous, had Ambassador Jusserand visit the State Department and talk with Secretary Hughes. It, too, will probably make no formal protest until it is evident what the United States actually purposes doing. French, Italian and Spanish law requires that seamen on ships of those nationalities have a daily liquor ration. So there will be a direct clash between the laws of at least three countries and that of the United States. Ambassador...
...English are inclined to admit the legal right of the United States to act in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court, at the same time protesting such action as unfair and discourteous. The French are more inclined to regard our action as an infraction of international...
John W. Davis, former Ambassador to Great Britain. His opponents say he is no possibility because he has given his legal service to large financial (sugar) interests...
...chiefly a legal question which must be settled before American recognition is accorded: By Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution, the Mexican government was given all the subsoil of Mexico, including oil, minerals, etc. This was manifestly unfair to foreigners who had previously acquired rights to subsoil properties. Obregon has said that he would recognize these rights obtained by American investors before the Constitution went into effect. But Secretary Hughes does not trust his word. He wants the promise written down- preferably into a " treaty of commerce and amity...