Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cultivate his Baptist and American Legion following, build a local machine. In 1930 his political activities were interrupted by the Department of Justice, which found that Lawyer Holt and the Howard County sheriff had organized a "Hoosier Protective Association" which assessed local bootleggers $3 a week in return for legal aid if and when they got into trouble. Mr. Holt was sent to Leavenworth in 1931 for 18 months, got out in seven. Indomitable Mr. Holt promptly went in for politics again, put himself up for Mayor last month and carried 30 of Kokomo's 33 election districts...
...First use of his pet name for her in public. *Though no longer Queen she retains by a legal settlement the title of Her Majesty...
Responsibility for the existing conditions rests with the homes, schools, churches, communities and the legal profession. The fault is not with the police and prisons so much as with us, the people...
...Dealers find it a delicate point. In such liberal victories as the Minnesota Moratorium and the first New York Milk Control cases. Chief Justice Hughes's vote was decisive in 5-4 divisions of the court. Yet New Dealers do not count upon him in the long legal pull ahead...
Studebaker Corp. was not the first motor casualty of Depression but it was by far the biggest. The venerable South Bend, Ind. concern which Clem and Harry Studebaker founded as a wagon works in 1852, was brought low not by the usual affliction of reduced sales, but by a legal snarl over a mid-Depression effort to expand. In 1932 Studebaker purchased White Motor Co. (trucks) only to have the deal blocked by minority White stockholders. Upshot was a receivership. Last week it looked as if Studebaker would be both the first motor maker to shuffle off its financial troubles...