Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flegenheimer was ambushed, police offered several explanations. One was that his legal difficulties had brought so much unpleasant public attention to the local anderworld that it was deemed prudent to eliminate him. Another theory was that since Flegenheimer's exile, other gangs had "muscled in" on his interests. While police estimate that no less than 135 lives have been lost as a direct result of Flegenheimer's outlaw enterprises, he was known to favor the conference rather than the revolver as an instrument of settling jurisdictional disputes. From his Newark hideout he had sent an emissary to Manhattan...
...gangsters, aided by shyster lawyers and self-contradictory law. These gentlemen have walked the streets, danced and drunk in the night clubs, and played golf on the municipal links without the twitch of n eye-lash-surrounded by music men and what the press euphemistically calls. "female companions". Extra-legal methods are the obvious reaction of a conscientious police commissioner to such conditions...
...must realize nevertheless, that Mr. Valentine's methods are extra-legal. Like the Vigilante committees of the early West, they are children of necessity. Under conditions of law and order they would be inexcusable. The fact that New Yorkers are rightfully grateful to their commissioner merely indicates that New York, like most large American cities, is not yet fully civilized. As soon as the rule of law has been established, as soon as brute force need no longer be met with force, Mr. Valentine's methods will be no longer justified. Until then, more, honor and more power...
Biggest news of its day was the world's first legal electrocution, at Auburn, N. Y. in 1890. To that event the New York World devoted whole pages, with details of the apparatus and its effect on the victim, who, through error, was literally fried alive...
...Advocate has kept a clean legal record so far in its history except for one issue in 1925 which was banned because of a cartoon which appeared in a parody of the magazine "Dial...