Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Agreed on the essence of its act, the Senate plunged into hot altercation over legal technicalities. The State convention method of ratification has never before been specified by Congress. Finespun arguments were developed over the power of Congress to require this method. Montana's Senator Walsh complained of the expense. New York's Wagner pleaded for referendum by the people rather than their representatives. The Senate favored convention ratification...
...curriculum with such modification as may seem desirable to supply the business background of the topics studied. The second year at the Business School will be spent in similar consideration of the fundamentals of business training. The last two years will be devoted to a modified form of legal training in which the problems of modern business will be emphasized. Representatives of the two Schools will together give several courses during the last two years. One of these will be a seminar in Business Policy, in one year correlating the several business courses studied at Harvard and in the second...
...Many law graduates who enter business each year will find such training more valuable than the study of law itself. Aside from monetary rewards for their ingenuity, the schools will feel quite deservedly a definite satisfaction that they have succeeded in filling a definite gap in the methods of legal education...
...chronic excitement an irresistibly comic combination. His frozen-faced teammate, Buster Keaton, is an attraction abroad where people cannot understand what either one is talking about. In this picture, misinterpreting radio reports of the election, Durante and Keaton purchase a brewery in the delusion that their enterprise is legal. Fortunately they are so incompetent that they make near beer in spite of themselves; when arrested, they are immediately set free. By acquiring an experienced braumeister, they are soon in dangerous rivalry with racketeers. They cap their misdemeanors by getting a whole town so sodden that when federal agents raid...
...Strict enforcement of legal rights brings about foreclosures, forced sales and losses to the owner and mortgagees alike. Those familiar with the present situation can see no reason why mortgages should yield 5½% when other securities are yielding 4% and banks find difficulty in lending call money at 1%. Above all things, mortgages cannot be expected to yield in interest more than the productive possibilities of the properties...