Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eventually betting was resumed on the legal basis that the Government must receive between 2% and 3 ½% of every bet laid, according to the nature of the bet. Small itinerant bookies must pay their tax through the sale of tickets. The great betting concessionaires may file their tax returns with the Government direct on the basis of their duly audited accounts...
...That the refusal of the prisoners' motion for a new trial (TIME, Nov. 1), which precipitated the Paris mass meeting, was based on legal reasoning and evidence, and not, as inflammatory reports said, on a determination to execute the two men, innocent or not, for their anarchistic beliefs...
...Legal involutions and complexities are interesting if taken in small doses. And they have never been more naively (or more publicly) exploited than in the trial of the California apostle Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson. Until the jury renders a verdict one cannot help matters by passing private judgment on the lady; but one may--and millions of newspaper readers do--derive considerable entertainment from the agile antics of her lawyers. In fact out of the various journalistic menus which have been served the public continuously for seven months the McPherson affair wears the best...
...Washington blasé officials informed the press that such ratejuggling is not only legal, but is habitually resorted to in the case of exceptionally distinguished visitors...
...there is any virtue in the legal institutions of this Commonwealth, citizens of Massachusetts cannot but admit that these accused men have very thoroughly had their day in court. Their day, for that matter, is not yet over, for their counsel are at liberty to appeal once more to the Supreme Judicial Court for a reversal of the present decision. Absolutely no one can urge that there has been any suppression of evidence, or any turning of deaf ears to the pleas of the defense...