Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defeat the movement of the "Italian Romanists" to make Christopher Columbus's birthday a legal holiday...
...Text in full: I. That such adherence shall not be taken to involve any legal relation on the part of the United States to the League of Nations, or the assumption of any obligations by the United States under the Treaty of Versailles...
...were jerked into eternity, after farcical legal proceedings, because they were suspected of attempting to form a new party in opposition to President Kemal. He, knowing well the mettle of these opponents who had successfully overthrown "Abdul the Damned," resorted to the only sure curb for Turkish intrigants-the noose...
...those who callously maintain that the primaries per se make such expenditures necessary, and do not in any way consider the men who spend the money to blame. That is an old and very evil fallacy which is based on the theory that nothing is immoral that is legal, and that what the other man does justifies your actions...
...week a kindly and distinguished Canadian, just turned three score and ten, vacationing at Cedarhurst, his rustic estate on Lake Memphremagog, Quebec. Robert Stanley Weir, for 16 years Recorder of Montreal (1899-1915) was mourned by Canadians last week not because of his lifetime of public service and distinguished legal reputation but as the author of O Canada, the Canadian national song. Strictly speaking, Jurist Weir did not "write" O Canada but paraphrased and extensively altered into English an earlier version in French by Judge Routhier. The present version, chanted by Canadians on public occasions, is almost unknown...