Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canard that "a mysterious letter by which her Founder-Father willed her his throne" was to be presented by Miss Booth at the High Council is, of course, ridiculous. William Booth exercised his legal right and named his son Bramwell Booth to succeed him. Having done that he had no further power of controlling the succession. William Booth died in 1912, the only General of The Salvation Army who had the power of nominating his successor. Evangeline Booth was duly elected General by the legally constituted body deriving its authority from the Act passed in the British Parliament...
Harvardmen invented the case system of teaching law, deducing legal principles from cases actually decided in court. The Gluecks likewise cite cases of wayward women to exemplify the whole problem...
...Mayor LaGuardia, a nonchurchgoing Protestant, was much less impressed by the moral points made against the lottery by excited clergymen than by the legal points made by cool-headed jurists who were positive the law could not last a week in the courts...
...survival. Churchmen leaped up to denounce it, well aware that they could take credit for having killed it. The Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation began circulating petitions against it. The American Protestant Defense League called it "immoral and degrading." The Society for the Prevention of Crime threatened to take legal action and Lawyer Samuel Untermyer said that two reform organizations had asked him to represent them against it in court. To Mayor LaGuardia went protests from the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, The Bronx Clergy Association and Liberal Episcopalian Dr. Walter Russell Bowie who wired: "It would be depth...
...president of the Law Review and the Legal Aid Bureau will tell of the work of their organizations. The chairman of the Board of Advisers of the Law School, Committee will also speak...