Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shotgun wedding theory is based on the fact that Will and Anne's appearance before the clergyman was after intimate relations had taken place. But in Shakespeare's time, legal marriage consisted only in declaration of enamoured couple's intentions of living as man and wife. It was common for the couple not to appear before a minister until, as the papers say, "the stork loomed," which they did mainly to insure the offspring's inheritance. As the clergyman who married Will and Anne was known to be one of the strictest in England...
...effect, amends only those parts of the Volstead Act which today limit the alcoholic content of "beer, lager beer, ale, porter" to ½%. Whiskey, gin, rum, wine and the like are still left legally taboo. Untouched are the scale of penalties for Prohibition violations. As large and complex as ever are the restrictions on industrial alcohol. H. R. 13,312, with many a change in definition, does nothing more than set up a complete legal exception for 3.2% beer from the 18th Amendment. To raise revenue it taxes the new beer $5 per bbl.?the brewers' chosen figure?thus...
...Robert Elliott Burns. Last week the fugitive was a fugitive no longer. Author Burns was apprehended in Newark. He had been running a toy shop in East Orange. His arrest aroused national interest, stirred up two issues: a general one on the question of crime & punishment, a specific legal one between Georgia and New Jersey...
...years the paper barely eluded the sheriff. Then Publisher Lamade organized a lottery (legal in those days), with prizes of a piano, a gold watch, a marble-top chamber suite, a rifle, a silk dress pattern. Four coupons clipped from Grit bought a chance. Few months later the paper was out of debt; its circulation (initially 1,500) was 14,000. The three proprietors shook hands, raised their own wages from...
...Hyde: "The tax system discriminates against the farmer. The injustice is greater now than it was a few years ago. . . . Foreclosures are blighting the hopes of men who can get as much out of the land as anyone could. . . . The powers of our credit institutions must be broadened and legal restrictions relaxed so that efficient farmers can be given a fighting chance to hold their homes...