Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Johnson, glad to deal with Mike Tighe instead of Earl Forbeck, promised to "go the limit with the steel unions if they'll get down to cases." He asked them to lay the legal groundwork for governmental action...
Attorney Warner, a graduate of the Harvard Law School in 1932, who took over a part of the defense during the last days of the trial in Charlestown will be in charge of the defendants' case in the higher court. He has recently published a treatise on the legal aspects of the N.R.A. and was dismissed from a law firm with which he was associated when he rallied to the defense of the rioters...
...judge to shield the police and to intimidate and incriminate the defendants and the witnesses. In spite of these handicaps, the defense was able to refute, by means of witnesses and trenchant cross-examination, every one of the component charges that together constitute a riot according to legal definition. The defense proved that the assembly was lawful, that there was no violence or intention of such except on the part of the police, that the people were unarmed, that the neighborhood was terrorized not by the demonstrators, but by the police, and that there was no concerted effort to override...
...required to wear beards like those of the plaintiff's players. "From time immemorial, however, beards have been in the public domain. In respect of matters within that domain all men have rights in common. Any man, therefore, if so minded, may-without being subject to any challenge, legal or equitable-not only grow such beard as he can, but purposely imitate another's facial shrubbery-even to the extent of following such topiary modification thereof as may have caught his fancy...
...Chairman Dahl and friends took no chances. No advertisements were to be published, no prospectuses prepared. Each & every offer was to be by word of mouth. For any major corporation the preparation of a registration statement is a staggering task but for a New York City traction company, whose legal and financial involvements confuse even the best trained analysts, the job is well-nigh impossible. The bankers swore the deal was no evasion of the Securities Act, that they intended to consult the Federal Trade Commission. Nevertheless, many a bond dealer last week shied away from retailing an unregistered issue...