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Word: legalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contributed greatly to the evolution of the American college into the American university; he first among American educators rightly understood the character, scope, and function of university training in such professions as law and medicine, and to his forceful initiative and convincing advocacy the improvement of medical and legal education in the United States is largely due. These notable contribution to education by no means exhaust the list of his services; indeed, by virtue of his leadership in many fields of social and civic endeavor, he may be confidently acclaimed our first citizen, as he is properly acclaimed our most...

Author: By Frederick VANDERBILT Field, | Title: Harvard's Greatest Birthday Party | 12/15/1926 | See Source »

...rock crusher. They can masticate almost anything. Last week in Portland, Ore., they chewed up bottles containing $16,000 worth of liquor and roared contentedly as the stimulating fluid oozed forth. The whiskey, seized by the Government three years ago, had been the subject of a prolonged, legal fight. In the hour of triumph, the Women's Christian Temperance Union demanded a public doom for "the goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Potpourri | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...told of the benefits of the Quebec Liquor Commission in the December issue of Current History. Said he: "In Quebec a non-injurious quantity of alcohol may be purchased and drunk freely and openly with State guarantee of freedom from harmful adulterant. But in the United States the legal penalty for this harmless act is death. That death does not result from the many drinks taken is because our law is not enforced; legally all alcohol sold should contain the lethal dose of so-called denaturant. How many juries could be found to send a man to the gallows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Potpourri | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...will never support Carol if he seeks to obtain power by force of the army. Carol must ask the King's permission to visit him. He must also leave the woman with whom he lives immorally, free himself from his environment in Paris and return to his legal wife and son. Princess Helene lives only for her child, and is highly respected by the whole people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mayor of the Palace | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Prince of the Roman Catholic Church, cast about recently for some august legal authority to draw up an indictment of the anti-Roman Catholic Calles Administration in Mexico (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.). Roman Catholic William Dameron Guthrie, San Francisco-born attorney in the famed oleomargarine case before the U. S. Supreme Court, is now President of the Association of the Bar of New York City. With Paul D. Cravath (see p. 22) he is one of Manhattan's greatest corporation lawyers. Obedient to the request of Patrick Cardinal Hayes he sat down recently and wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Talent | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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