Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baron Tanaka of Japan denounced as "Outrageous!" last week, the recent Chinese Nationalist vote which declared abrogated the Sino-Japanese Commerce and Navigation Treaty of 1896. Baron Tanaka contended in a stiff note to the Nationalists that the Treaty cannot be abrogated except by mutual consent. Though the Japanese legal position is strong, Chinese consider it "outrageous" for Japan to demand the pound of flesh which is her due under this old treaty, originally signed with the Chinese Imperial Regime, which has been defunct for a decade and a half...
Just whom the atheists would send to their defence was not quite certain. It did not, however, seem probable that they would lack legal talent. Clarence S. Darrow was of course their loudest trump; Arthur Garfield Hays was another attorney in their lineup. Probably Charles Smith, a demure and smiling infidel, with the gracious manners of a country clergyman, would be present at the procedure...
...proposed to erect a skyscraper with Calvary Baptist Church as its core. Trustees resigned while Dr. Straton organized legal battles to justify his design. In this year also he frequented dance halls and composed his pornographic peroration upon the modern dance: "Crowded together . . . surging up and down . . . locked tightly in each other's embrace . . . with the cheek of the man against the cheek of the girl . . . sensuous strains of oriental music . . their bodies vibrating together and often coming into postures that were actually indecent . . . cigaret smoke . . . fumes of whisky . . . tipsy girls . . . young women who were raving drunk . . . surging . . . women...
Last week the salvage firm of diving Italians kept 60% of their diamond haul, returned 40% to the original Belgian owners. That was right, that was legal, and in strict accord with the Italo-Belgian contract...
...Moscow "Grain Dictator" is Comrade G. K. Ordijonikidze, who is also one of the three Vice Prime Ministers of the Soviet State.* His duties: to organize the national grain sowing and harvest campaigns, to fix the legal price of grain, to stamp out speculative hoarding or other anti-social procedure. His powers: absolute, and supported by the right to declare in emergency regional Martial...