Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speculators do not let the U. S. raise its ante peacefully by easy stages, the U. S. may stop raising-or may raise to the limit-$1.29 an oz., the "legal" silver price set years ago by Congress. In the confusion that would follow this latter move, stabilization of world exchange might be postponed indefinitely. Or confusion might be so great that England and other nations would have to join the U. S. in a stabilization conference...
...troops around the President's palace, shooed into it the Cabinet, Diet and Senate and provided Professor Moscicki with pen & ink. Scratch, scratch the puppet President signed a new Constitution (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933) which sweeps into the dustbin every vestige of Polish democratic institutions and regularizes in legal form the governing of Poland by what the new Constitution calls her "Elite"-actually her Army officers and ex-soldiers. Since the old Marshal feels they will always do as he orders, he had no hesitancy last week in conferring on the President legal powers to control the new "Elitarist...
...calculate interest on the Bonus starting from 1918 instead of 1925 and still let the Treasury off for something like half a billion dollars. Charles F. Boots, who gets $7,000 for helping the Senate draft its bills, put Actuary Breining's mathematical gymnastics into legal language. Then Senator Harrison had his bill...
...condoning bastardy, North Dakota and Arizona are the most liberal States in the Union. Every child born on their soil is considered legitimate. At the other end of the legal spectrum are Texas, Louisiana and Virginia which forbid a local bastard to search out his father...
...when the Bulletin assigned him to cover Hiram Johnson's campaign for Governor on the new Progressive ticket. Governor-elect Johnson took him to Sacramento as chairman of the new State Board of Control, for which Neylan had drafted the plan. Chairman Neylan's achievements transcended all legal limitations of the job. When the superintendents of State institutions tried to tell him that oleomargarine was better for insane patients than butter, Neylan barked: "You are more important to the State than your patients. If oleomargarine is so good, you eat it!" He saw that they did. With...