Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Half the U. S. people could buy legal liquor last week, and most of them found the prices painfully steep...
...housemasters, it might be driven to admit that 3.2 beer with meals was a privilege which Harvard is certainly adult enough to claim, and to suggest this to the Massachusetts legislature. A simple amendment of the beer age limit from twenty-one to eighteen would be nothing but a legal acknowledgment of a plain fact. Even the Massachusetts legislature cannot remain forever so far from the walks of men, and so remote from their habits; with a little encouragement from the University, they would be willing to amend their limit, and thus make dining hall beer a possibility...
Since most Chinese statesmen are fluent in English, Mr. Chen seldom has to use his halting Chinese, lashes out with a searing, corrosive power of invective which has made him a force in China ever since he was appointed legal adviser to the original Canton Government of the late, great Dr. Sun. Last year Mr. Chen quarreled with Conqueror Chiang and since then with all the spleen in his bitter soul he has been out to smash the Generalissimo whom he calls "medievally minded," "politically dishonest," "the betrayer of China to Japan" and "the Dictator without a soul who would...
...week's revelations vexed English Roman Catholics. Cried Most Reverend Richard Downey, Archbishop of Liverpool: "It is difficult to see what moral justification there can be for reading a Protestant service over the remains of these Roman Catholic princes, even though it were done on the plea of legal continuity of the present Anglican Church with the pre-Reformation Church of Britain...
...lawyer by training, Banker Aldrich got down to legal brass tacks with specific changes which he thought should be made in the Banking Act of 1933. His proposals had not only a strong legal but a strong moral tenor, natural to a brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr. Important Aldrich suggestions for the uplift of banking...