Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel Landfair Rosenbery 2L. of Madison, Wisconsin, a graduate of Yale in 1924 has been elected president of the Legal Aid Society for the coming year. He succeeds Brooks Potter...
...function of the Legal Aid Society, as its name implies, is to provide clients unable to afford the services of lawyers with unpaid support. The members of the society are recognized by the courts and may plead their cases as though admitted...
Offices are held at Central Square which, being the most congested district of Cambridge, is the most favorable location for the people of small means seeking aid in legal matters These, however, do not make up the entire clientele as students of the University are also entitled to assistance, which is given free of charge on all occasions...
...relation to the public, differs, obviously, widely, both in character and degree, from a grain elevator standing at the gateway of commerce and exacting toll. . . . Sales of theatre tickets bear no relation to the commerce of the country. . . . And, certainly, a place of entertainment is in no legal sense a public utility; and, quite as certainly, its activities are not such that their enjoyment can be regarded under any conditions from the point of view of an emergency. ... A theatre, of course, may be regulated so as to preserve the public peace, insure good order, protect public morals...
Meanwhile, in Washington, D. C., last week the French Embassy permitted itself to be vexed. Its legal, semi-annual shipment of whiskey, gin, wines and champagne had arrived with all the diplomatic seals broken and with one-fourth of the consignment missing...