Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other stockholders, less well-to-do than the Couzenses, were fighting the $35,000,000 in assessments ordered by the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency, had in fact secured a temporary Federal injunction against their collection. Such legal tactics made upright Senator Couzens impatient. Declaimed...
...until Sept. 30," reporters were told. Looming behind the Duke of Atholl a phalanx of patronesses, mostly culled from the peerage, seemed to assure that a proper share of all money received will go to leading United Kingdom charities, chiefly hospitals it was understood. Last year the perfectly legal Irish Free State Hospitals sweepstakes netted ?2,000,000 for charity...
...Kentish farmers even dug trenches, remindful of wartime, around the barns in which they kept stock which might be seized. A few boasted that they had strung up electrified barbed wire, shouted, "This is a tithe war!" Infinitely distressed and completely silent was Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. The legal experts of His Majesty's Government assert that ''the tithe is property''-which of course is sacred. Tithe rates (no longer the Biblical tenth of a farmer's produce) run less than $2 per acre per year, but English farmers, faced...
...Manhattan broker for a bid on a block of bonds. Whatever was bid he promptly accepted, then mailed the bonds draft attached to a Manhattan bank, received his money long before the broker sniffed a rat. In New York State a seller of hot goods has virtually the same legal status as a thief. But in Minnesota and many another State, the fence can plead ignorance. Thus for years Fence Connolly did a land-office business. He was finally nabbed by U. S. postal authorities in 1931, given a 15-year sentence, but while awaiting the outcome of an appeal...
...bushels of corn engineered a "corner" in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, forcing up prices, causing him a loss of $300,000. Under the anti-trust law, a victim may collect damages equal to three times his losses. Multiplying by three and adding $100,000 for legal expenses, Mr. Backus sued...