Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stand Mr. Mitchell stoutly maintained that this was equitable, since he had sunk his entire fortune in bolstering up the bank during the crash, therefore had a moral if not a legal claim on the bank's generosity...
...students is categorically different from that of a tradesman to his customers, and the difference ought to be recognized in the law. As for the stipulation that beer cannot be sold to those under twenty-one years of age, it has proved not only harassing to the legal advisers of the University, but unenforceable throughout the state. There should, no doubt, be no sale to children, but to prevent it, an age-limit of sixteen would be a far wiser means than the present one. To replace a completely unenforced law like prohibition with another which must remain partially unenforced...
...commission was paid by Cuba to Senor Obregon not as an individual but as the Chase's Havana manager. After deducting expenses, including legal fees of $58,055.07 for Cuban lawyers (Antonio de Bustamente, Hernandez Cartaya, Garcia Montes) the balance of the commission, some $375,000, was distributed among the original underwriters of the loan: Chase National Bank, Chase Securities Corp., Blair & Co. Inc., Equitable Trust Co., Continental Bank of Chicago...
...meet, a majority of them may decide 1) to settle privately with Mr. Collier at so much on the dollar; 2) to try to collect in full by granting an extension of time or 3) to force Mr. Collier into bankruptcy and get what they can from the ensuing legal wrangle...
...support. Polity is less sensational, farther removed from the meretricious mens Americans which finds its nourishment in such journals as the successful Time and leaves the American Mercury to slide into the quiet tenor of bankruptcy. Perhaps Polity can afford the limitation on popularity which its mild and legal tone must impose. It has, at any rate, begun bravely, and were its book reviews to be elevated to the high level of its featured articles, it would have earned an even clearer title to merit in the rather private field its editors have chosen...