Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME erred. There is a financial- and legal distinction between bonds of the two types. The Committee on Municipal Securities of the Investment Bankers' Association of America, whose meetings TIME reported, wanted the Washington legislature to "force the defaulting communities to pay every dollar of past due indebtedness." -ED. In Minnesota...
...Appeals unanimously upheld the Baltimore Judge (Eugene O'Dunne). The Hearstlings had pleaded that they placed their duty to their newspapers and to their public ("People who think") above the orders of the court. Judge O'Dunne had said, in passing sentence: "As the dignified affairs of the legal forum were shifted to the commerce of the street for the benefit of the Hearst International Reel Corp. . . . it is expected that the syndicate . . . will pay the fine." The fine was $5,000, imposed on Harold Elliston, onetime managing editor of the Baltimore Neivs who also faced a day in jail...
...particularly unfortunate in its attempted mergers for some time. The proposed consolidations of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of the Divinity School and Andover Theological Seminary, were both quashed of Supreme Court decisions as illegal or unconstitutional. In the present instance again though minor in importance legal facts have apparently been overlooked or not given sufficient consideration. In a university, possessing one of the greatest law schools in the world the repetition of these slips is strangely anomalous...
...particularly unfortunate in its attempted mergers for some time. The proposed consolidations of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and of the Divinity School and Andover Theological Seminary were both quashed by Supreme Court decisions as illegal or unconstitutional. In the present instance again, though minor in importance, legal facts have apparently been overlooked or not given sufficient consideration. In a University possessing one of the greatest law schools in the world the repetition of these slips is strangely anomalous...
German doctors discreetly remained silent. They know too well the legal, religious and ethical taboos of all countries against taking life. When absolutely helpless against disease, they might let the patient die (easing his pain with drugs if necessary). But to give him a lethal dose...