Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgenthau (with his outgoing adviser, Earle Bailie), Governor Eugene Black of the Federal Reserve, Rene Leon, big silver propagandist, all had been in session at the White House. At his regular meeting with correspondents the President dropped two hints of his intentions: 1) that he was sure of his legal right to capture the Federal Reserve's gold, 2) that rumors of his intending to establish a new Government-controlled central bank were a bad guess. Then he smiled cryptically. The country was still left guessing. In the Senate, Inflation's Thomas called a meeting of his friends...
...peons regarded Governor Gore as simpatico because he was a Catholic and had nine children. But when he legalized cockfighting, faint were the huzzahs for putting a legal face on an open practice. His proposals that landed estates be subdivided into small farms, that the legal interest rate be reduced from 12% to 8% infuriated the island's monied classes. The students rebelled when he appointed an unschooled trustee to the University of Puerto Rico's board. The politicos rebelled when he asked appointees for undated resignations in advance. Having fallen into every political pitfall the Legislative opposition...
...groom appear twelve blank spaces for the names of their twelve children-a modest estimate, since Il Duce recently gave prizes to 92 "Champion Mothers" with an average of 14 living children apiece (TIME, Jan. 8). Thumbing on through her marriage cer tificate, the Italian bride comes upon these legal reminders: "Matrimony imposes on married couples the reciprocal obligations of cohabitation, faithfulness and assistance (Article 130 of the Civil Code)." "The husband is the head of the family. ... It is obligatory for her [a wife] to follow him wherever he sees fit to establish his residence (Art. 131)." When...
...also news to Mr. Aldrich's brother-in-law, John D. Rockefeller Jr., biggest Chase stockholder. Neither Mr. Aldrich nor Mr. Rockefeller liked what the Senate turned up for them. Last week it became public knowledge that Mr. Aldrich was ready to act on his dislike by making legal war on his predecessor as head of Chase...
...Natians' Secretariat by Mr. G. G. Knox, president of the League's Saar governing commission. In this report Mr. Knox, a former British civil servant, reveals that the Nazis have subtly penetrated the Saar to such an extent that they have set up what amounts to an extra-legal government that in many cases wields more power than the actual governing body. Nasi Storm Troops are secretly maintained and drilled and exercised despite the fact that this has been specifically forbidden by the government; they have even gone so far as to stamp police identification cards with their own visas...