Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stimulation of other men. Scarcely an important book has been published in recent years dealing with public law in which the author does not acknowledge his debt to Professor Frankfurter for suggesting the work and for continued assistance and encouragement in its execution. Likewise, countless articles appearing in legal magazines emanate indirectly from his fertile mind. One journal is said not to have appeared for years without at least one article for which the idea was furnished...
...snatched eagerly at the opportunity to occupy prominent posts in the government. Frankfurter has consistently resisted efforts to drag him into the limelight. If rumor be true, he turned down the Attorney-Generalship. In any case he was offered and declined the post of Solicitor General and several other legal offices connected with the new administrative agencies in Washington, positions whose incumbents regularly take the spotlight from cabinet members...
Through these hectic times Frankfurter has preferred to remain the most powerful member of the "Invisible Brain Trust." Hosts of the younger appointees to legal and administrative positions in the new government agencies owe their appointments to suggestions from Frankfurter. It is through them that his own idees have cropped up so frequently in dispatches from the capital. Many of them belong to the Frankfurter coterie studied under him at the Law School and still keep in regular touch with him. The one piece of work to which Frankfurter's hand was directly applied is the highly controversial Securities...
Just why the United States with its unbalanced budget should blame other nations for their unbalanced budgets is not explained officially. But the belief is growing that the real reason for delay in stabilization has not been given out and that it refers entirely to the legal snags that have been encountered in handling the gold profit...
...receipt and it would be difficult to find out just who deposited gold and gold certificates. Also it would be regarded as unfair to pay a profit to those who by accident happened to possess gold certificates in March, while the rest of the country used other legal tender currency...