Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sanctions and regional pacts for sanctions will be discussed respectively by the two committees on legal and constitutional questions. The third committee will consider international control of propaganda; the fourth, non-tariff trade barriers; the fifth, control of munitions; and the sixth, control of terrorist activities...
...prohibits state governments to do so), the question is whether or no the Fifth Amendment forbidding Congress to deprive a man of "property without due process of law" can be invoked against the statute. Theoretically, of course, this "necessity" business isn't supposed to play any part in legal determinations. "The law's the law. . ." The feeling is that the Court is in a mess either way. They say that if it decides against the government, the Court will be packed by adding to the number of justices. If it decides in favor, it is said that they will...
Congressional greenhorns harked credulously to hopeful talk of a "short session," with adjournment in April or May. Older, wiser heads, however, knew that the House and Senate would probably sit through until late June or July-could, in legal fact, under the 20th Amendment, continue their session right...
...high New York State court, peering through a knothole in a legal fence, decided fortnight ago that Nudist Vincent Burke was not guilty of "indecent exposure and openly outraging public decency" when he gave a nudist party in an uptown Manhattan gymnasium. Believing that the court approved the contention of all high-minded nudists that their cult is a matter of Health, Mr. Burke put his head through the legal knothole and crowed: "The court has declared Nudism is legal in New York State and inasmuch as the laws in all the other States are patterned closely after...
...soon attracted the attention of Andi, a successful, aristocratic young judge. Andi was engaged to an heiress, but his heart was not in it. After protracted and pressing arguments, Sylvelie let Andi persuade her to marry him. For a while their happiness was idyllic. Then, by a stroke of legal accident, the papers in the three-year-old Lauretz case came into Andi's hands for review. His lawyer's nose immediately smelt a rat; he hounded his family-in-law until they finally confessed the crime. But Sylvelie, innocent accessory after the fact, was legally implicated...