Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a strictly legal point of view, the undergraduate has no grounds for complaint. The University owns his room; the tenancy contract stipulates no guarantee against search. And if there were desperate need for such a general search, if it were carried on by an officer of the University in the presence of the tenant there could be no justifiable ground for any objection. But the example of other Houses demonstrates that lost books can be successfully recovered without recourse to the general search. It is, furthermore, inexcusable to permit irresponsible undergraduates covertly to ransack a fellow House member...
...maintaining through three hard years. Where the insurance companies led other big financial concerns were expected to follow. With most of them it was a case of declaring a moratorium or having millions upon millions of their assets permanently swept away either by legislative action or by the extra-legal technique developed by desperate farmers to circumvent their debts...
...severed relations with Germany on the night of Feb. 3. Huey Long pounced on it: "It took them two nights at least to do a job like that." He turned to Governor Allen: "Oscar, make it for the nights of Feb. 3rd and 4th. That will give you a legal holiday Saturday...
...stifle the bootlegger the President takes over the liquor trade as a Federal monopoly, packs the Supreme Court with his supporters to forestall legal hitches. When the President's pretty young secretary, inadvertently visiting relatives in Jersey City, is horribly wounded by gunmen, he adroitly capitalizes the red-hot indignation of her fiancé by making him chief of a federalized police force to root out crime and racketeering. Chicago becomes the scene of siege operations as the Federal "Green Jackets" bomb under-worldlings out of their fortified lairs. Meanwhile Washington has superseded State authority by its power...
...journalism is different. In a small community with only one or two newspapers, the editorial tail can wag the financial dog. Thus last week, all on account of the little Huntington, Ind. News (circulation 4,120), the three banks of Huntington were closed, business was crippled, a succession of legal holidays had to be declared by the Mayor...