Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drive to deprive him of his unprecedented monetary powers the President had parried (TIME, July 10). But within six historic days: the legal authority of most of the "alphabet" administrative agencies set up under the New Deal was gravely threatened, its Labor program was imperiled, its yardstick utility plan was circumscribed and back to the State machines went a great share of the political power that Franklin Roosevelt had spent six years gathering into Federal hands. Hardest blow of all landed on his nose, which the Senate feared he wanted to stick too far into international power politics...
...Walter-Logan Bill provides recourse through the Federal Circuit Courts and up to the Supreme Court, thus throwing vast legal jungles open to immediate appeal (and possible exploitation). Moreover, the bill imposes strict rules upon administrative officers and employes for making their decisions public and in writing for all to see. Damages are provided for injured appellants. The Department of Justice dislikes the act because it goes so far, and because a committee appointed by Frank Murphy is working on the same subject, might well produce a monument...
...British have found no way to stop the smuggling. Even if a boatload of refugees is captured, the authorities are helpless, for all identification papers have been destroyed and there is no country to which they can be deported. Moreover, Secretary MacDonald's retaliatory prohibition of legal immigration may even increase the smuggling of refugees by convincing even moderate Jews that it is morally justifiable...
...Charlie Hardy, saying that Senor Cintas was a disgruntled, discharged employe dealing in "misstatements and half statements." Back cracked Oscar Cintas with the charge that the Hardy law firm (Hardy, Stancliffe & Hardy) was making a good thing out of Car & Foundry. (The company paid the firm $12,825 in legal fees for the last fiscal year...
...Government is already, through relief rolls and WPA projects, providing support for a very substantial number of lawyers. At the same time it sees a large number of citizens who help pay taxes, deprived of legal services because they can ot pay the provisional scale of prices...