Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unaccustomed footsteps as one after another, clerks, stenographers, women in shawls, fathers carrying children clutching baptismal coins, trudged to the postern of the Federal Reserve Bank. "Gold?" asked two armed guards. A nod, and each figure passed in. Midnight was the deadline for the use of gold coins as legal money...
Said Mr. McAdoo: "Well, we got our legal opinion...
...much as possible of the $250,000,000 cut from Veterans' pensions last June. At that time Congress empowered the President to cut pensions up to 25%, and purge the pension rolls of thousands of veterans whose post-War disabilities were classed as War injuries only by legal "presumption." To this end the Legion concentrated on a four-point program...
Much of his writing involves problems of marriage and divorce, and he considers these problems in the legal as well a the literary field...
...investigate them." His stockholders thrilled to every syllable. Then in the same prosaic way Mr. Aldrich informed them that Elihu Root Jr., 52-year-old lawyer son of the sole surviving "Elder Statesman" of the U. S., had been retained to study-and was actively studying-whether Chase had legal ground to do something about the matter. Mr. Aldrich did not mention Mr. Wiggin, or ''former officers" or even "certain per-sons." In fact he did not even use the word "sue." This moderation in the use of words led one irate stockholder to jump to his feet...