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Word: legalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four confessed to 55, seven to 50, two to between 50 and 60. Of the rest, most traveled regularly at 45 or faster. Only one drove at 35. The average for the whole group was 49 m. p. h., which is 5 m. p. h. faster than the average legal state limit. Explained Safe-Driver Emmett M. Williams of Georgia, who has driven 1,000,000 miles in 28 years without accident: "I drive pretty fast. At times I've hit 90 m. p. h. I think you ought to get out of the way of folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Speed | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...months ago. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler passed his job on to her. It thus became her duty to spring the trap under Bethea. A devout Roman Catholic, Sheriff Thompson consulted her priest, learned from him that nothing in canon law prohibited her from sending the blackamoor to his legal death. Protestant churchmen concurred. Nevertheless, soft-hearted Sheriff Thompson sighed: "I suppose I will spend the rest of my life forgetting-or trying to forget." Would she lose her nerve at the last minute was the big question last week at Owensboro, scene of the hanging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Party | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

Last week Judge Willis used the squabble over Judge Edmonds' qualifications as an excuse to cut through the Pacific Mutual snarl. Taking the case back to its legal beginning, the court asked Commissioner Carpenter to submit a reorganization plan to him exactly as he had previously done to Judge Edmonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mutual's Mess | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...Thorpe, a dressy Hollywood gynecologist, whom she married within a year. In 1934 Miss Astor's parents, who evidently regarded their daughter as a speculative investment, complained in court that she had failed to keep them in luxury (TIME, April 2, 1934). Pacified with an extra-legal settlement, the old folks retired to a goat ranch near Hollywood. Meanwhile, Mary Astor's and Franklyn Thorpe's child was born, named Marylyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thorpe v. Astor | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

Disturbing to Manchester is a bond-holder's suit, still pending, which argues that a court in Massachusetts has no jurisdiction over a New Hampshire firm. If this contention should be upheld in the autumn, Manchester citizens fear that more months of legal bickering would delay the start of new enterprises in the Amoskeag mills. Ever since the mills closed a Manchester Citizens' Committee has been trying to find purchasers or lessors for all or part of the Amoskeag plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Hampshire Collapse | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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