Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quote Sir William as saying: "Communism is not dead yet. . . . Communists . . . are proposing even to regulate the number of a man's children by law. ... I cannot help feeling rather for the father of a family, who has got almost up to the legal number of children, when the nurse comes downstairs from his wife's room and says, 'I am sorry to tell you it is twins.' I am afraid the nurse would have to ring up the police and tell them of the new crime that had been committed...
Then you drop this footnote: "Supposing that the legal limit were six children and supposing that twins should be born to Their Majesties, who already have five children, then the position of Sir William Joynson-Hicks would be that of his hypothetical nurse...
...owes the U. S. France's debt to the U. S. has already been scaled down once, by the Mellon-Berenger debt-funding agreement of 1926. France has not yet ratified that agreement and likes to consider that her U. S. debt is still an open question. The legal life of the debt-funding commission has expired, however, and the Coolidge-Mellon attitude is that the question is closed. "They hired the money, didn't they?" President Coolidge is supposed to have said in 1926. Now he says, and from time to time repeats (in effect...
That is to say, the Jury absolved Miss Adele of any specific misconduct, although the Judge had trespassed the bounds of legal propriety to accuse her in general...
...registration list at any time before the board of revision meets, by filing with the registrar of the precinct in which he is a voter his affidavit made before some officer authorized by the laws of the state to administer oaths, setting forth the fact that he is a legal voter in that precinct, stating his place of residence, and that he was prevented from registering on the registration days because of absence from the city...