Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be more than doubled. The new wing which will be perpendicular to the present structure will house in addition to a replica of a court room several professors' rooms, consultation rooms for visiting judges, and study rooms. The court room seating 500 will be the scene of mock legal battles to be held there when it is completed...
Columnist Brisbane did more than grumble. He sneered: "Borrowers should send three large gilt balls to be hung above the Federal Reserve Bank entrance, and similar ornaments to some of the big banks." He threatened: "This is what the law of New York State says, Section 370: 'The legal rate of interest shall not be more than $6 on $100 for one year.' Every bank charging more than 6% interest is violating the law and knows...
...Manhattan's bankers failed to tremble. They answered neither sneers nor threats. Had they wished, however, they might have said: "We charge no more than the legal 6% interest rate. The additional 1% is a carrying fee, to compensate us for our trouble in carrying the account." This was, of course, one of many current evasions of the law's letter...
...conclusion the President called upon all present-specifically upon the Divisional Generals and the Governors-to cooperate in the disinterested choice of a provisional president ad interim, and to facilitate the legal election of a candidate to replace assassinated President-Elect Obregon. Señor Calles retires from office...
...swapped yarns for liquor. The captain, the accosted, the yarns, are all of a piece with garrulous South African traders who peddle reminiscence with their kitchenware. In pleasant 19th century cadences Mayer sets down the story of this Canot, Italian by birth, American by adoption, who sailed the last legal slaver before the trade was outlawed. Forced thereafter to bootleg his valuable black cargo, he practiced the proverbial sardine economy of space in his barracoon, packing his human loot spoon fashion, so that each wretch lay curved in his neighbor...