Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baumes laws, which went into effect in July, which increase the penalties on various types of crimes. The most important provision is that which sentences a man to life imprisonment upon his fourth or subsequent conviction for a minor felony. This particular statute has been the subject of heated legal debate and was "finally upheld by the New York Supreme Court last month. No doubt, it has made habitual criminals think twice before committing that fourth felony. Crime was reduced in New York in 1926 for this and other reasons (migration of thugs, more alert police forces...
...allegations filed by Mrs. Chaplin covered 42 pages of legal foolscap, and were at once printed and hawked about the city of Los Angeles at a shilling a copy...
...these meagre details the Daily Mail added a sarcastic comment that it would not risk printing a picture of Comedian Chaplin, lest this constitute a legal breach...
...were unable to stay in love when married since they took for granted they must impose restrictions upon each other-"marital jealousy being, as we all know, a cardinal virtue in our present marriage code though jealousy is demonstrably one of the most hideous vices. . . ." Judge Lindsey urged a legal form that would permit such couples to live together as long as they mutually desired. He thought that the mere knowledge that they could be free at any time by asking for a divorce card at a clerk's window would almost invariably make them want to stay together...
...greatest tax suit in U. S. chronicles is not a time to economize on legal talent. The defendants have hired an impressive force: Joseph E. Davies, onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; John W. Davis, De- mocratic nominee for President in 1924; and others, perhaps Charles E. Hughes. Against these bigwigs, Secretary Mellon has sent a smart young man of 27-Alexander W. Gregg. Mr. Mellon has been accused of possessing many kinds of genius, and not the least of them is his ability to pick certain youths from among other youths, and lift them to fame. Mr. Gregg...