Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although every citizen is free to hold his own views as to the identity of the future King, my Government will take legal steps under the Constitution to punish those responsible for agitation, if the movement in behalf of Otto or any other candidate continues...
...exercise of his profession, he is curiously without legal protection, or social position. According to the whim of the moment the man he interviews may paste him at the first question, or sneer, or smile. If the reporter develops as a result of this a cynical contempt for all the other estates, a perpetual grouch, an inferiority complex, it is not surprising...
Appointed. George Leslie Harrison of Manhattan; to be Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, succeeding the late Benjamin Strong. Mr. Harrison is an alumnus of Yale (1910) and of Harvard Law School. In 1913 he was legal secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1914 he was appointed assistant general counsel of the Federal Reserve Board. During the War he served as Captain with the Red Cross. Since 1920 he has been Deputy Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Said John Pierpont Morgan: "The appointment of Mr. Harrison should meet...
...found in the Royal Treasury a cash balance of exactly three lei (one and four-fifths of a cent). He found a national deficit of nine billion lei ($54,000,000) ; and that advances already made to the State by the National Bank of Rumania greatly exceeded the legal limit. In short, the new Prime Minister charged his predecessors with every sort of gross malfeasance. They had kept on the State payroll, he said, hundreds of persons now dead and some who were never born. Dolefully he admitted that it might prove temporarily impossible to meet the government payroll charges...
...onetime actress (1897-1910), called a conference to discuss nurses and nursing. Dr. May Ayres Burgess, Director of the Grading Committee of Nursing Schools, flayed the type of girl now entering the profession. "The minimum educational standards are low," she stated. "New York State is a serious offender. The legal requirement is one year of high school, which is lower than the requirement placed by most department stores or business houses for the education of their clerks, typists and saleswomen. . . . The time has come for raising the quality of women admitted into the nursing profession, in order to secure adequate...