Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everyone in any way connected with possessions of more or less backward people, of this or any other nation, knows that such possession carries with it racial problems of extreme difficulty, which have to be approached with respect for the legal and ethical rights of the subject people and also with due regard to the racial prejudices existing on both sides of the fence. That these prejudices are real and in some particulars vital, any resident of Mississippi, California, or Manila can explain. They require statesmanlike consideration, not "threeday" vaporings. These things may appear different in Dubois, Wyoming...
...defense, in order to find out whether rich men can thwart the process of justice by having a staff of able attorneys or whether witnesses can remain abroad indefinitely after being served with subpoenas. The big issue is whether the possessor of great wealth can, by use of legal talent, detective agencies, tampering with the jury and through the absence of important witnesses in Europe, defeat the aims of justice and keep out of the penitentiary. The whole sordid scandal is like a dead mackerel in the moonlight. It stinks and stinks...
...play starts back in slavery days, a few years before the Civil War had brought about the legal emancipation of the colored race. The central theme, in which the action of the whole play is centered with more than usual intensity, is built around the life of a mulatto--a champion of the negro cause who is doomed to increasing disappointment and failure because his aspirations and his pride are out of all proportion to his abilities and his environment. The blood of the old colonnel, his natural father, makes him unwilling to submit to the indignities attendant...
This means that, in the opinion of the court, the government was not within its rights in canceling the Mexican Petroleum Co.'s title because that company ignored the law, preferring instead to seek legal redress against a law which is regarded as confiscatory. Moreover, according to the court, the government is not within its constitutional rights in substituting 50-year leases for outright oil titles...
...thorough treatise on contraceptives is Dr. Marie Carmichael Stopes' Contraception, Its Theory, History and Practice: a Manual for the Medical & Legal Professions & All Social Workers. But only doctors and lawyers can lawfully buy it. (This is the case, also, with most of Havelock Ellis' books...