Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be to ratify the program worked out by his New Deal experts. Secretary Wallace, Chester Davis and their aides had just three days to draft such a program while the farm leaders were assembling. Each had a pet plan and the others spent their time pointing out the legal and economic flaws in his proposals...
...morning of the fourth day when the farm leaders arrived in Washington, the details of the plan and the legal devices to make it workable had still to be fleshed out, but the skeleton idea had taken form. The farm leaders marched in on Secretary Wallace. Edward O'Neal, Farm Bureau glad hander, spoofed them and slapped their backs to get them in good humor. After a brief session with Secretary Wallace, the farm leaders retired to draft a plan. Meanwhile, at a press conference President Roosevelt outlined the plan which the farm leaders were about to draft. Export...
...Ordinarily an abdominal incision is involved, though cauterization may be accomplished dangerously by entrance through the uterus. Drs. Tillman & Boyd stoutly maintained that they had respectively recommended and performed sterilization because Daughter Hewitt was feebleminded, declared their action was an everyday occurrence. "I didn't worry about the legal aspects of the thing," said Surgeon Boyd, "figuring a mother had the right to request such an operation, since the girl then was a minor...
After San Francisco legal authorities had suggested that they might have to show medical grounds for the operation, affidavits by Drs. Tillman & Boyd were discovered in New Jersey which asserted that after they had Daughter Hewitt on the operating table for an appendectomy, they discovered serious disturbances of her other organs which necessitated sterilization. Surgeon Boyd admitted that only a few weeks ago he had inserted in his private record of the case the words "organs infantile." Daughter Hewitt's attorney wanted to know why, if only an appendectomy was anticipated, Surgeon Boyd had made his incision...
Last week California authorities were at sea concerning the legal aspects of Ann Cooper Hewitt's case. The State's 23-year-old sterilization law applies only to inmates of prisons and asylums. The legal adviser of the State Board of Medical Examiners was of the opinion that any parent may have a minor child sterilized, that the child's only recourse is to sue parent and physician within one year after attaining majority. Ann Hewitt's was the first such suit he knew of. At week's end an Assistant District Attorney...