Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposed amendments on the grounds that: 1) newsboys "are not in any sense of the word engaged in Child Labor"; 2 ) the proposals would upset delivery systems and throw needy boys out of work; 3) the badge license idea would cost taxpayers a great sum, might develop into "a legal machine devoid of human kindness, causing hundreds of unnecessary arrests." Backing up A. N. P. A. was the International Circulation Managers Association which met in Manhattan this week just before the hearing. Boldest opponent of the proposed changes was Publisher Jerome D. Barnum of the Syracuse (N. Y. ) Post-Standard...
...members were elected; Elliott Carr Cutler '09, M.D., Professor of Surgery, Harvard University; Reginald Aldworth, Daly, Ph.D., Professor of Geology, Harvard University; Charles Thornton, Davis '84, A.B., Judge, Massachusetts Land Court; William Cameron Forbes '92, LL.D., Former Governor General of the Philippines; George Burgees Magrath '94, M.D., Professor of Legal Medicine, Harvard University Theodore Roosevelt '09, A.M., Former Governor-General of the Philippines...
...biggest firm of racetrack book makers in the world is Douglas Stuart Ltd., which employs 400 clerks in its entirely legal offices at Stuart House, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. Douglas Stuart, whose motto is "Duggie Never Owes" is not a person but a syndicate. Busiest member of the syndicate is breezy, dapper, dark-haired Sidney Freeman, who once worked with Novelist Edgar Wallace on a South African newspaper, and who would "rather trust an English bricklayer than a foreign nobleman," in the matter of bets. For the last three years. Bookmaker Freeman has been coming...
...There without warning Thaw shot White dead. At the trial the Thaw defense was temporary insanity ("a brain storm''). Acquitted of murder, Thaw was committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. He enjoyed enough freedom to begat a child one visiting day. Later he escaped, gained legal release. After her husband divorced her in 1915, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw led a precarious existence, in vaudeville and second-rate night clubs. For several years she worked in Chicago, lately in Atlantic City...
After this inner wrestling had come to its close, and the Packard brow had regained its natural serenity, he delivered himself of the following opinion, couched, as is apparent even to the casual reader, in weighty and legal verbiage...