Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lately, Mr. Browne achieved new prominence as defense counsel in a case of matricide. But not his legal abilities, not his services as lawmaker for the farmers around Ottawa, were what the press of the nation remembered last week about Mr. Browne...
...Senate's Sense. It had no legal value. Its moral value was washed out by partisan undercurrents. Its application was so indefinite that Senator Reed of Pennsylvania was moved to say: "You might as well pass a resolution in favor of the Ten Commandments." But the Senate, after three days of wrangling, twitting, theorizing and horseplaying, passed it anyway, 56 to 26-a resolution by boyish Senator LaFollette "that it is the sense of the Senate that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents of the United States in retiring from the Presidential office after their second term...
These admonitions, although obviously unenforceable, in the legal sense, were backed by a covering letter in which Signor Piero Parini, Secretary General of Foreign Fascist Organizations, declared: "The word of Il Duce is a commandment which admits neither of glossing over nor of interpretations of any sort...
...deep carpeted downtown offices majestic attorneys reading Justice Proskauer's suggestion went into conference with their consciences. A lawyer is retained to win cases for his clients. Many a potent legal mind has found fame and money in acquittals for clients of whose guilt he must have been morally assured...
Sanford Bates, Commissioner of Corrections for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, began the discussion taking up the general subject from the legal point of view. Momentarily pausing to comment on the glories of the Boy Scout movement, he passed to the subject for discussion. He spoke of the law, as practiced in former years, as revolving wholly upon the question of responsibility, this theory being based upon the belief that man's will is supreme...