Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instituting a campaign whose objective is the artist's right to benefit from the reproduction and distribution of copies of his work. These rights in time must be given legal recognition; but pending their establishment by the process of the law, we intend to make these rights effective by establishing them as common custom...
...capitals trooped the 531 U. S. citizens who alone among the 127,000,000 have the legal right to elect the President and Vice President of the U. S. Under a proposed amendment to the U. S. Constitution, long talked of and again being agitated by Senator George Norris of Nebraska, this right would be taken from them and given to the people. But long ago the same unwritten Constitution of the U. S. which denies any President the right to more than eight years in office, deprived the electors of their power to vote anything save the popular conviction...
Ebullient Dubliners said this makes their country a republic and it certainly kills "the person of the King" in the Free State, but that person has been a legal fiction. Teacherish President Eamon de Valera said dryly that his Free State has not withdrawn from the "British Commonwealth of Nations." The Dail vote he explained "leaves the King only a vague title in the international affairs of the Irish Free State. He has no longer any internal powers...
...hastily drawn bill was afterward said by Dublin lawyers to have two interesting though unintended features: 1) if the Dail is ever dissolved there appears to be no legal provision for it ever to meet again; and 2) both Edward VIII and George VI are today King, according to this bill. By another technicality Edward VIII in the Union of South Africa will be King until its Parliament meets next Jan. 8 to confirm His Majesty's abdication in that Dominion...
...little customer unless the difference can be justified by actual savings on volume business. Everyone agrees that it is cheaper to handle a few large orders than many small ones but in a mixed business it is almost impossible to determine precisely what the saving is. To circumvent this legal and accounting problem U. S. Rubber Co. last week announced a novel method of meeting the Robinson-Patman Act. After the turn of the year a new subsidiary called U. S. Tire Dealers Mutual Co. will purchase tires from the parent company on an equal footing with big buyers like...