Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DeWitt Mitchell, also of Minnesota. For five months President Hoover and his astute Attorney-General had cast about for a successor to Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt. Candidates there were galore from every State but the President's requirements were high: a thoroughgoing Dry, possessed of a sound legal mind and ample industry, beyond the influence of front-page publicity. Such a man Mr. Mitchell told President Hoover he would find in Mr. Youngquist. Acceptance of the appointment followed only after long persuasion, for Mr. Youngquist had aspired to become Minnesota's next Governor...
...Hendricks, Linton Burkette, Jack Nevin Jr. ? visited 49 capital speakeasies and bought drinks. They then contributed their experiences, with addresses and names deleted, to an exposé of Washington liquor conditions. Quickly summoned before the Grand Jury, they were asked to supply names, addresses, dates ? the specification for legal complaints. These they declined to give, on the ground that their admission to the speakeasies was on a confidential basis, that they were not dry agents, that to answer the Grand Jury's questions would violate their professional ethics...
...diet essential. He took some "silverskin" (rice pericarp) chaff, soaked it in water and fed the mash to sick fowls. They speedily recovered. Humans also recovered. Thus he showed that eating whole rice was a preventive against beriberi. As preliminary reward his colleagues made him professor of hygiene and legal medicine at the University of Utrecht...
...Dean Gleason Leonard Archer of the Suffolk Law School (Boston night school). Dean Lewis advocated reaffirming the Association's previous recommendation of a two-year college education prior to law study. Dean Archer charged a "clique" within the Association was attempting to foster a "college monopoly on legal education by outlawing evening law schools." Dean Lewis retorted that Dean Archer, in advocating recognition of evening schools, had "commercial interests only." Dean Lewis's recommendation was reaffirmed; law schools operated for profit were condemned...
...termed normal conditions that the Federal Reserve System has experienced-not that anyone doubts its ability to extend any or all accomodation that may be needed. Its reserve ratio the past year or more has been between 70 or 75 per cent some 30 per cent above the legal minimum. Indeed, this unprecedented gold revenue may be said to have indirectly been behind the bull market, since the public knew there were far greater supplies of credit available in the country than they would ever need, and that the high discount rates which the Federal Reserve has maintained in effort...