Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with the expenditure of any Government money. I represent no one having a claim against the Government. I have not represented anyone who has borrowed money from the Government. . . . However, since the Government is in the banking business, I would consider it ethical to give legal advice to industrial institutions and banks in connection with loans, if called upon to do so. I have not assisted directly or indirectly in, nor have I received any fee in connection with, the enactment or the prevention of the enactment of any legislation whatsoever. Knowing that I have consistently refused employment...
...carrying the mail, his contract may be annulled." Since representatives of every company carrying the air mail were at these conferences, Mr. Farley had no choice in the matter; under the law he was required to annull the contracts, and in doing this he was merely performing his legal duty...
Thus did President Roosevelt cite his legal authorities under the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 to reduce the official gold content of the dollar from 100? to 59.06?. By the same proclamation he took possession of the gold reserve ($3,500,000,000) of the Federal Reserve system, authorized the Treasury to buy gold, foreign or domestic, at $35 an ounce, and put its $2,000,000,000 exchange fund into operation. Next steps...
...says Lawyer Robert Mitchell (A. E. Matthews) to his secretary in this play. This cool second-act instruction does not mean that famed Paul D. Cravath is about to be seen in A Hat, a Coat, a Glove. It merely shows that Mr. Mitchell has a 16-cylinder legal mind, with big names in his address book. For such a bland, patrician barrister, he is in a most astonishing predicament. His wife (Nedda Harrigan) has left him to sin with a young illustrator (Lester Vail). The illustrator has fished a drowning prostitute out of the East River, rushed...
...permit companies to sell mortgages with both interest and taxes in ar rears? To juggle foreclosed property into subsidiaries so that no loss was apparent? To break the law by lending more than 10% of their assets to a single borrower? To let their guaranty funds fall below legal requirement? Above all, why did he permit Bond & Mortgage Guarantee, New York Title & Mortgage, Lawyers Mortgage and Lawyers Title & Guaranty to pay $13,150,000 in dividends to stockholders while they were invoking the 18-month grace period provided in their guarantees...