Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outburst." Most sociologists agreed with Dr. Searle that the "basic condition" was economic discrimination against New York's Negroes, which had in turn set up a tragic train of unemployment, undernourishment, bad housing, disease, vice, unrest and, last week, resentful disorder. In three centuries the Negro has attained legal and political equality with the white citizen in New York City. Economically and socially, however, his position has stood still...
...today no responsible person in Louisiana dares challenge his power. The Governor is his puppet. He curses his State Legislature to its face and then boldly boasts that "they are the finest collection of lawmakers money can buy." The State judiciary is so packed with Longsters that a legal test of the Senator's autocracy is out of the question. The State guard is, in effect, a private political army to put down any and all anti-Long squawkers. The State's election machinery is so rigged that an outsider can never win. Political scientists may deplore such...
...same salary as that of his old one, awaited Mr. Biggs: RFChairman Jesse Jones had appointed him voting trustee of the stock of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway where the conflicting interests of Frank E. Taplin and the Van Sweringens required the interposition of a neutral party of distinguished legal attainments...
Richberg On Renewal. That the Finance Committee's NRA "investigation" was to be constructive rather than spectacular Chairman Harrison had already announced. First witness was Donald Richberg. As NRA's old general counsel, no one knew better than he through what legal pitfalls the organization had had to scramble in the past year and a half, what Constitutional hazards still lay ahead. Nevertheless, "the act should be extended substantially in its present form for two years," said he, producing the President's renewal request...
Having thus given the appearance of a man determined to stick by his guns, Mr. Richberg proceeded to lay down a 17-point program proposing amendments to limit NRA to "what can be legally accomplished." The Weirton decision had cast grave doubt on the NRA's legal power to regulate intrastate industrial affairs simply by spicing the law with the "commerce clause" of the Constitution. With an eye to avoiding a peck of court trouble, Mr. Richberg therefore announced: "Codification should be limited to those trades and industries actually engaged in interstate commerce...