Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...petitioned for by the Government to restrain the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange and the Sugar Clearing Association from carrying on any more speculative dealings in sugar. The injunction petition bears the signatures of Attorney General Daugherty, Solicitor General James M. Beck and five assistants representing the highest legal talent in the Government, and aims to " make the gamblers in sugar remove their roulette wheel from the American breakfast table...
...Communist Party of America has dissolved and has directed its members to join the Workers' Party, the legal, or "above ground" section of the organized American Communist movement, according to a statement issued by Charles F. Ruthenberg, former Secretary of the " underground " Communist Party, and now on trial for criminal syndicalism in Michigan...
...lone Democrat faced by a Legislature of Republicans. He is called the "veto-governor" because of the large number of bills which he vetoed during the last session of the Legislature. Now a collection of his vetoes has been published. They are marked by plain speaking and a clear legal mind, and Democrats claim that, although 27 bills became law despite his objection, this collection of vetoes shows that he won a " moral victory...
...Biloxi, Miss., the United States Marshal was ordered by a writ of sequestration to "seize and bring into court" a 75 ton dead whale, as to the ownership of which there was a legal contest...
William A. Brady: "I threatened that if the New York Legislature didn't pass a bill to permit theatrical performances on Sunday, I'd take legal measures to close the New York City municipal golf links on that...