Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make no claim to be the legal adviser of Mr. Hoover. I have done professional work for him, but it was of no great importance. I resent the implication that I am Mr. Hoover's closest legal friend. . . . My relations with Mr. Hoover have been very pleasant. . . . I have never discussed the sugar tariff with Mr. Hoover. I have discussed the sliding scale with Mr. Newton. . . . Some people might think that what Mr. Newton said was the same as what the President said. . . . I have never received any directions from Mr. Hoover. . . . You must realize that this...
...wisely done" and observing further: "The Mexican reason [for the consulate closing] is . . . because they feel that Laredo is not a safe port for their public citizens to pass through. . . . Mexicans find it difficult to understand that you have not found it possible . . . to ameliorate the conduct of legal officers of that country. . . . If any effort can be taken along that line, I wish you would advise...
Lucky 13. Under Mexican law the first five voters who appear at a polling booth on election morn are the legal guardians of that booth for the rest of the day. In Baltimore last week friends of General Manuel Pérez Trevino, President of the Grand Revolutionary Party, congratulated him on the fact that voters of his party were first at every single polling booth in Mexico City and at most throughout Mexico. The count gave President-Elect Ortiz Rubio 13 times as many votes as all other candidates combined. Only 19 people were killed in the entire republic...
...Equitable Trust Co. with resources of $953,000,000. Last fortnight its president. Chellis A. Austin died (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week Lawyer Winthrop Williams Aldrich was elected to succeed him. A yacht-goer, Lawyer Aldrich is 44, also a director of Bankers Trust Co. While he has been legal advisor to Equitable for ten years, most famed of his legal activities was to handle John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s ousting of Oilman Robert Wright Stewart from Standard Oil of Indiana. After his election, Mr. Aldrich frankly conceded he came to Equitable representing Rockefeller interests, confirming the long-held...
When a newspaper prints an objectionable personal reference, you can shoot the editor, but usually your only legal redress is to sue for libel. Not so in Minnesota. There they have a "Newspaper Suppression Act," called by libertarians a "Gag Law." Last week State Chief Justice S. B. Wilson ruled that the law does not violate the constitutional provision guaranteeing freedom of the press...