Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor McNair declared a legal holiday. Businessmen in the Triangle were told to lock what doors they could reach, turn the keys over to Guardsmen. Bread sold at 30? per loaf, candles at four for $1. As night fell on the lightless city the flood was still rising. In the Roosevelt Hotel water lapped the lobby ceiling. Above stairs 575 guests and employees were marooned without heat, food or water. Two cinema theatres were flooded to their balconies. Above the flood line, the William Penn and Pittsburgher Hotels were jammed. Guests ate by candlelight, toiled up stairs and found their...
...days later Justice Wheat made legal history by signing a permanent injunction forbidding the surrender of the Strawn telegrams to the Senate Committee...
...shameless Bolsheviks of Russia!" It was his ambition as a youth to become a missionary of the gospel, but instead the law claimed him until War carried this pious layman into the profession of a spy-or rather into the British Intelligence Service. Next he was attached to the legal office of the British Admiralty. Of late years he has served as Attorney General, a post which in Britain does not carry full Cabinet rank. When Novelist Compton Mackenzie in 1932 disclosed some of the secrets of the Intelligence Service, he was promptly and successfully prosecuted by Attorney General Inskip...
...department stores in the East. The National Retail Dry Goods Association had made the same conspiracy charge in a letter sent to its 5,000 members. To many a dress manufacturer the Filene suit meant that a stability achieved after years of effort was in serious danger of legal upset. To retailers everywhere it was a call to arms...
...style piracy regulation in cheaper grades is just a smoke screen. Inflexible throughout the controversy, he last week made the Guild's first conciliatory move, promising: "The Guild will ship goods now on order to Filene's and the R. H. White Co. so that the entire legal proceedings in Boston may be concentrated on the principles involved in the Guild program as a whole...