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Word: legalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan to keep taxes at existing skyscraper levels, but by wiping out illegitimate distilleries, it will also reduce by half the amount of available alcohol now on the market. Without any further provision to replace the supply thus destroyed, this procedure can only have the result of skyrocketing the legal price of liquor to astronomical figures, with consequent further inducement to bootlegging and its concomitants of graft and racketeering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 5/12/1934 | See Source »

...once more. His plea for not being deported to Germany, and in the light of recent happenings it is admittedly well founded, is that he will not obtain a fair trial under the Hitler government because he is of the Jewish faith. And now, and with plenty of legal backing, he accuses the State Department and the German government with failing to heed the extradition treaty, claiming that since he was not deported within the 60-day limit, he should have been released last year regardless of his guilt or innocence. Despite all this, the Hitler government still demands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noted Swindler-Professor Demands Freedom Under Extradition Treaty | 5/10/1934 | See Source »

...rugby, the ponderousness of American football as played and presented today reminds me of a weight)' clash between the Boards of Directors of General Motors and U. S. Steel. There they think deeply of mighty matters of sales impact, where the next onslaught should be directed. Their legal advisor-coaches sum up the opportunities and dangers, decide to put the vice-president-in-charge-of-forward-passes on the Board for some critical moments. One of the Directors feels faint from having been at it for too long. He is ordered to take a brief rest so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 7, 1934 | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

District Attorney Dewing may stop the trial, and Judge Brown may rule out the evidence on insanity, but in any event, the legal system is getting another big jolt. The "wheels of justice" are swiftly becoming bogged again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...with him a woman (later his wife), settled out of court to avoid publicity. Settlement: Heim to provide St. Pierre with everything he wanted till he was 21, then pay him $35,000 outright. Last week in Pittsburgh St. Pierre, now 22, sued Millionaire Heim for $31,000 "legal blackmail," alleged that he had been paid only $4,000 of the stipulated $35,000 final settlement, admitted that during the last five years he had received from Heim and spent nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 30, 1934 | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

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