Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state," as the "all-pervasive instrumentally for social control," but he wisely extends this limit in his final chapter by admitting that many other social institutions manifest conditions of social control not unlike those of the state. Clearly, this is true. The "state" is a legal concept associated with comparatively modern political institutions in the west. "Politics" not only belong to universal history, but also are involved in human relations which have little or nothing to do with the structure of government. What, then, is the essential, pervasive, irreducible characteristic in this thing we call "politics"--the unifying concept...
Congress, which includes more lawyers than any other professionals, did not choose to follow his gratuitous advice. Into two categories fell the legal-minded Congressmen who propounded opinions...
...Attorney General Cummings, fearful that the case was going against him, made an unscheduled second argument in which he praised abrogation of the gold clauses as a piece of great and well-considered statesmanship, but offered no new arguments to show that the Government's action was legal...
...time. When North Dakota Republicans discovered that he had voted that year in Minnesota, they secured an injunction which kept him from receiving his certificate of election as Governor. Governor-elect Moodie claimed that he had been out of North Dakota only temporarily, had never intended to change his legal residence. A State District Court vacated the injunction, allowed him to be sworn in at Bismarck last week. Pending, however, was a suit to oust him from office brought by the State Attorney General. Because his title was still beclouded, North Dakota's Legislature last week refused to hear...
Thus the League Council is accurately informed what will happen should they give the Saar now to Germany. To withhold it, many Geneva statesmen feared, would touch off a Nazi invasion to seize the Saar. Even the supremely legal mind of Sir John Simon was not attracted, as it normally would have been, by the Treaty of Versailles' proviso that the Saar may be split or diced up into as many parts as the Council pleases, each part being given a different status, corresponding to the local vote. From a legal standpoint the League seemed duty-bound to give...