Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advanced under Democratic rule to the RFC at $12.500. Not so brilliant as some of the New Deal's younger legalites, his tall bulk appealed to tall, bulky Jesse Jones, and his hard work resulted in his being rated among the more competent of the Administration's legal servants...
Becoming Solicitor General put Stanley Reed in the first line of the New Deal's legal defense at a critical moment. The Solicitor General's job is to decide what cases should be appealed to the Supreme Court and to represent the Government in person before that august bench. Solicitor General J. Crawford Biggs re-signed last month after many New Dealers had decided that he was not making the best of the Administration's defense (TIME. March 25). Mr. Reed, taking office, understood well enough that he was expected to do better. But he was hardly...
...discussion, blanks being left for the amount of fines that NRA violators should pay, etc. It would renew Section 7a without change and would not permit restrictions on production except for special exceptions. Chief change in the proposed law, however, was that it offered a mass of new legal verbiage to bring NRA within the scope of the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution and get around the Constitutional objections on which the White House was afraid to go to bat in the Belcher case...
...years after the Japanese delegation defiantly walked out headed by cold-cigar-chewing Japanese League Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka (TIME, March 6, 1933). Turning from his own troubles to the League's, M. Avenol, unaware that he was stirring up two Oriental hornets' nests, perfunctorily announced: "The legal bond between Japan and the League ceases to exist. Japan no longer has any rights or obligations as regards the League...
Governor Herbert Lehman of New York last week signed a law which requires every man, woman and child to supply samples of his blood whenever such blood tests are relevant to the prosecution or defense of a lawsuit. Such tests are sometimes the crux of legal actions to establish the paternity of a child. A few judges in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and South Dakota have on their own responsibility accepted blood tests as true evidence. But New York is the first state to incorporate the new science of serology in a statute and to recognize that there...