Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great interest in the Department of Agriculture . . . administered by the chief radio electrician. . . . The annual Fono [Islands' native council] recommended that the selling and serving of beer to young men under 18, and all women, be prohibited. . . . Subsequently this was enacted into law. . . . Since beer has been made legal, conditions have improved. . . . The illegal manufacture of 'bush beer' has been completely done away with. . . . Samoans do not carry alcohol as well as ordinary white persons. . . . The Samoans, particularly the young men, were addicted to rock throwing. . . . This habit culminated in one death. . . . The assailant was sentenced...
Mother spread consternation through the backwoods by announcing that she was about to have a baby. Stumped by the legal difficulties of adopting one, she bought a life-sized doll, swaddled it heavily, paraded it along the roads. She convinced a railway worker named Milton Trites that it was his. After that he bought the Bannisters groceries, the doll a crib. Mrs. Bannister told the Salvation Army worker that it was his by her daughter Marie, but he declined to contribute. This boom-time for the Bannisters ended sharply when the railway worker expressed a desire for a long, close...
...Arliss of child actors, gets an estimated $1,250 a week from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer because he impersonates immature characters like the heroes of David Copperfield, Little Lord Fauntleroy and Professional Soldier with incongruously mature dignity. Last week, Cinemactor Bartholomew was the central figure in as incongruously childish a legal mess as Hollywood, which specializes in such affairs, has produced in a long time...
Once each year, in theory, the legal owners of a corporation assemble for an accounting of the stewardship of their property. In practice the annual stockholders' meeting is largely a matter of form. Only with the greatest difficulty can stockholders be persuaded to sign enough proxies for a quorum, let alone attend in person. The few stockholders who do attend can do little except talk, since the majority of the shares are generally voted, not by disinterested stockholder representatives, but by a management primarily interested in staying in office. Almost nothing short of scandal ever bestirs the absentee owners...
...known to be an excellent research man and is considered an authority on Conflict of Law and Torts. He is understood to be held in high esteem by members of the Supreme Court. In fact his only drawback would seem to be that he has had no practical legal experience...