Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although only 37 years of age, Landis has already had a brilliant career as a scholar, legal expert, and government official He was born in Tokio, the son of a Presbyterian missionary. His first education was received there, for he did not come to America until he was 13. In 1917 he entered Princeton, where he was outstanding in both studies and athletics, and after graduation he attended the Harvard Law School from which he was graduated in 1924. He continued his studies and the following year became a doctor of judicial science...
Outside Chicago last week, Bank Night was still holding its own against state lottery laws. In Topeka, Kans., the Supreme Court ruled that Bank Night as practiced by certain Fox Theatres was illegal. In Albany, N. Y., the Court of Appeals ruled Bank Nights legal...
Even before Ochsner died the legal battle had begun in a desultory skirmish the luckless geologist having been given to vague, if not sly, business methods Somewhat the same methods also seemed to have carried over into his marital relations. While he was a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1903 he elopec with a nurse named Frances Anna Strasilipka, a Bohemian shoemaker's daughter whom he deserted five months later, leaving her with child, which died at birth That was the last Wife No. i ever heard of Washington Henry Ochsner until someone sent her a clipping...
...once while Daugherty was away on a trip, Ochsner sold the claims, which eventually wound up with General Petroleum. Of course, Ochsner retained the royalty rights. These were shuttled around in various private holding companies with assistance of various parties, most of 'whom also subsequently jumped into the legal fray. Daugherty started his particular lawsuits in 1924, dragging them on with no success for ten years until he suddenly established, on the basis of his original verbal agreement, his partnership rights. If that victory was upheld on appeal, which will be heard this week, Daugherty would get the entire...
...once heard an old salt settle an argument about the extent of the Admiralty's legal authority: ''I tells you all that the Admiralty can do what they like with us. They can hang us, they can shoot us, and they can drown us. There's only two things they can't do to us: they can't boil us in the coppers and they can't put us in the family way." He is equally delighted to remember the disdain of one Chawbags Bayly for the microscopic difference between senior and junior...