Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balance the French budget in these hard times lotteries and roulette have again been made legal. Last week, Paris was sure that absinthe will be next. The Cabinet of Premier Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue was reported considering whether to legalize absinthe at its full pre-War strength of 66% alcohol or perhaps go further and legalize what used to be called Swiss absinthe (80%). According to inspired reports, "The Government feels that by monopolizing the sale and manufacture of absinthe they can keep consumption within moderate limits and yet obtain a large revenue...
...such statements border on pure New Orleans absinthe romance, they are piquant evidence of the sturdy enterprise of Jung & Wulff who during the U. S. period of Prohibition sold 4,000 cases yearly of "non-alcoholic absinthe." In what New Orleans calls "the legal confusion which followed Repeal," Jung & Wulff sold 1,500 cases of absinthe until ordered to desist last...
Studebaker's position is complicated by a receivership growing out of a legal snarl in its attempt to acquire White Motor (trucks). Reorganization plans are nearly complete. Meanwhile, the company has gained ground under the three able receivers, Harold S. Vance, Paul Gray Hoffman and Ashton G. Bean. When once again her own mistress, Studebaker could listen to honorable proposals...
...first acts of the New Deal was to put the problem in the hands of Oil Administrator Ickes. But last week, none too certain of his legal rights, the best Mr. Ickes could do was to start a test case against Eason Oil Co. of Enid. Okla. He charged the Oklahomans with having drilled three wells in Crescent Pool in direct contradiction to the plan approved by his Petroleum Administration...
...years, Miss Fanny Holtzmann has been known vaguely in Manhattan theatrical circles as "the highest paid woman lawyer in the world." Since most women attorneys receive trifling fees, this distinction was negligible, although Lawyer Holtzmann's clients included Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Leslie Howard. She began her legal career as a schoolgirl, doing chores about the office of her older brother, Lawyer Jacob L. Holtzmann, studied law at Fordham, opened an office of her own half an hour after being admitted to the bar in 1922. She has been ready for the plaintiff ever since. She has additional...