Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founded during the Crusades, the Knights once were hospitalers, then warriors, later sovereigns of the Island of Malta. Today members must possess: nobility with 16 quarterings; Catholic faith; attainment of full legal age; integrity of character; social position. Elected by the Sovereign Council, the present Grand Master is Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani. U. S. Grand Master is Morgan Joseph O'Brien, onetime New York Supreme Court Justice...
...legal loophole for Chancellor Chamberlain and his shipping cronies was the fact that I. M. M. sold Wihite Star to Royal Mail. Royal Mail was the debtor, not White Star. It was Mr. Franklin's hard luck that in the meantime Royal Mail had collapsed...
...trusters," with Professor James B. Williams a special adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, with Dr. John B. Crane a special investigator for the Airmail committees of Congress, and with Dr. Edward Chamberlin assisting the Railroad Coordinator. Lecturers have discussed the New Deal in its economic, legal, and political aspects, and have often deviated from their regular schedule to discuss events recorded by the morning newspapers...
...legal staff of the NRA does not give written opinions as to what all these vague clauses mean but usually says it is a good thing to have them in the codes. Business men are left bewildered and do not know from one day to another what the legal position is unless they go to the courts. Most of them dislike to do this because withdrawal of the Blue Eagle may follow any action in opposition to NRA rules or policies...
...research, and the professional schools were developed to train men in the theory as well as in the practice of their professions. The Harvard Law School, with the lengthening of the term to three years, and the introduction of Professor Langdell's case system and Professor Amca' lectures in legal theory, was transformed from a "disgrace to Massachuselia" into the country's outstanding legal institution. The Medical School undertook to teach medicine as a science rather than as the mere art of healing...