Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Herald. Mr. Whiting has been prominent in the newspaper field for a number of years and at present conducts Whiting's Column. He will uphold the negative side of the discussion, supported by R. A. Stout '29 of the CRIMSON. Ira Sherman 3L, will discuss the legal aspect of the problem as an affirmative speaker, together with Morison Sharp '29. The student speeches will be from 10 to 15 minutes in length...
...Adopted a legal rider submitted by Señor Calles which amends the land and oil laws so that they are no longer "retroactively confiscatory." Specifically, land and oil rights obtained by U. S. citizens in Mexico prior to May 1, 1917, are to be "confirmed without limitation of time," whereas 50 years had been the limit after which such rights would revert to the State...
Died. Gavin McNab, 58, onetime hotel clerk, then lawyer, prominent Democratic leader of California, legal adviser to Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny, Jack Dempsey, Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle, Mary Pickford; suddenly, in San Francisco...
...world will never know. Last week the million dollar suits were discontinued with a hand shake. Poor people looked wistfully over the list of famed lawyers that had worked on the case, Charles Evans Hughes, Max D. Steuer, Hiram C. Todd, John Proctor Clarke, John W. Davis, etc. Such legal leviathans are often paid $5,000 for mere preliminary opinions. If they so wished they could exist comfortably from squabble cases, living...
Myron Charles Taylor, the 54-year-old Quaker, was born in Lyons, New York. After graduating from Cornell, in 1894, he practised law in Manhattan until his legal connections brought him an advantageous opportunity to enter the textile industry in which other members of his family already held interests. None of them had ever displayed the energy or ability which characterized the operations of Myron Taylor. The consolidations which he effected, his ability to push his companies into prosperity, attracted the attention of financial bigwigs, especially the attention of George Fisher Baker, Chairman of the First National Bank of Manhattan...