Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon this background of advancing civilization, are introduced plots and counterplots, debutantes and social highlights, legal writs and scheming lawyers. To this are added a number of specialties: Frank Johnson '35 will sing the choruses of a set of new tunes ably written by Edward E. Stowell '34 and Francis D. Moore '35; Henry Brewster 34 will supply a quantity of tap-dancing; finally, Ruby Newman will play the music...
...York City the newsstands, of which there are some forty thousand, were set aside as positions for the disabled. The blind and crippled were supposed to have preference. LaGuardia discovered that these posts were bought and sold, not distributed to those who had a legal right to them, but allotted to the highest bidder. The machinery behind this petty manipulation masks itself under the pious title of The New York Newsdealers' Protective and Benevolent Association, directed by a common gangster named Jake Sbar. The price tag on a newsstand ranges from one thousand to eighteen thousand, and once the cash...
...other Army equipment. Three Senators (Copeland, Barbour and Reynolds), who had written letters to the War Department on Joe Silverman's behalf, last week hastened to explain that they had done so merely out of kindness. Meantime Mr. Silverman had hired A. Mitchell Palmer to represent his legal interests and was sitting tight, saying nothing...
...weeks Dictator-President Mustafa Kemal Pasha's men have been wading through the black muck to which fire last December reduced Istanbul's law courts building. All Kemal's fire engines and all his men had not saved the archives holding all Turkey's legal documents from the time of the early Sultans to 1923. Muck were the old debts, the old judgments, the cash reserves. What Turkish firemen had not done, it appeared last week that Turkish melons...
...Legal? Belatedly, Postmaster General Farley went to bat in an attempt to justify the Administration's action. In his opinion, only modest National Parks Airways (Salt Lake City-Great Falls, Mont.) was entitled to have its contract reviewed, with the possibility of reinstatement. "General" Farley was convinced that there was "illegality"' in Postmaster General Brown's handling of airmail contracts, although, as yet, he had no basis for "criminal action." Some Farley charges...