Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regulation on working hours be written into the code within 60 days. 3) Of the freedom of the Press clause, he said "it is pure surplusage. While it has no meaning it is permitted to stand merely because it has been requested and because it could have no such legal effects as would bar its inclusion. Of course, a man does not consent to what he does not consent to. But if the President should find it necessary to modify this code, the circumstance that the modification was not consented to would not affect whatever obligations the non-consenter would...
...have confined my law practice to the courts and to the quasi judicial branches of the Government. I have given legal advice to industries in the formulation of industrial codes. I have appeared publicly as attorney for corporations and stockholders whose legal rights were involved before the Fletcher Investigating Committee of the United States Senate...
...might and power. The galleries were filled with visitors to see the spectacle. As the roll was called the Senators strode in, grim and determined. Senator Hugo Black, the head of the committee investigating air mail contracts, sat in the front row. Other front seats were taken by other legal lights of the Senate-Lawyers King of Utah, McCarran of Nevada, Robinson of Arkansas, Borah of Idaho, Johnson of California. McNary of Oregon, Logan of Kentucky, Wagner of New York, Barkley of Kentucky, Norris of Nebraska, Hastings of Delaware. Most of them at one time or another...
Things had to be started quickly. Local officers were to suggest projects, state officials were to 0. K. them, without waiting for approval from Washington. Furthermore, all projects were to be entered upon without contracts which have to be passed on by many legal authorities, and thus slow down any emergency program. No stipulation was made that local authorities had to contribute money, but CWA made many promise to pay the costs of materials...
...jumped in his Chevrolet coach, drove 40 miles to make a speech on "the finer things in citizenship." First issue of the Transcript after the sale urged its readers to use the same tactics in "the next round with the octopus." Editor Baker is campaigning for funds to defray legal expenses for 300 other water-rate strikers. Invited by the water company, after two denials, to attend a rate conference, Editor Baker refused to accept the settlement offer, has been barred from all future meetings. Meanwhile Editor Baker holds proxies for almost all the Transcript's 1,713 readers...