Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cambridge last night maintained its long-standing drought; although alcohol was being consumed within the law in Boston and in large sections of the remainder of the nation, the only wassail within the sacred purlicus of Cambridge was either extra-legal or imported individually. Furthermore, there is no prospect of any spirituous relief until December 19; on this date, the Cambridge City Council voted at a meeting last night, the polls will be open to the public from ten until eight o'clock for a special vote on the liquor question. The ballot which will be presented to the people...
...Nolet, manager of the popular Club Touraine: "This repeal is going to be a great and fine thing, and it is going to do away completely with the speakeasy. Many people say that repeal will not end the speakeasy; they claim that it will be able to undersell the legal restaurants and taverns. This is impossible, for to exist they must charge exorbitant prices in order to meet the expense of bringing in or making the illicit liquor. Who will pay prices that are equal to, if not more than, our prices to go speaking around drinking bad liquor...
...ways that Mr. Tugwell has been operating has been to send some of the young lawyers and special assistants to the various hearings, where they raise all sorts of legal objections unless the policy is in conformity with the broad principles of readjustment which are the heart and soul of the Tugwell philosophy...
...significant experiment in legal and business education is being conducted by the Yale Law School in cooperation with the Harvard Business School. With the inevitable arrival of the public control of business and the destined growth of such control there has and will arise an even greater demand for expert legal advice to create a mechanism that will have a smooth and adequate legal apparatus and to insure its proper functioning. Already the lawyer is overwhelmed with problems concerning the legality of financing methods and the intricacies of modern corporate devisements...
...Yale school has attempted to broaden the classical curriculum to include practical study of social changes in relation to the law. Instead of being confined to case precedents, the new study will attempt to find the causes and effects of the case, the actual circumstances from which the legal problem arose. Dean Clark has expressed the hope that the new plan will not merely be useful as vocational training. "The dream is that this will result in real gain in scientific knowledge and in methods of control of our intricate social organization." How successful and useful the combination of legal...