Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clients of the Harvard Legal Aid Society, for the most part, bring their rent squabbles and bills for conditional sales, it has been recently revealed by the Society. Numerous college cases have come before them in the past few months. These cases usually have to do with petty bills and telephone company misunderstandings. The most frequent cases from those people outside of the University are those to do with the installment collectors. The crank who continually takes his smallest troubles to "law" is the most frequent visitor to the free legal service bureau...
...Legal Aid was started by the Law School Society of the Phillips Brooks House and remained part of it for several years. Until 1915, the central offices of the bureau were in Brooks House. At that time it was merely a committee of a larger organizations. Even with the removal of the office to Austin hall, the societies remained very close to each other; both the chairman and secretary of Phillips Brooks Law Society were ex officio members of the Legal Aid. Since 1930, the members of the society have been chosen for their scholarship alone. There remains little connection...
...Venner has been bringing suits, winning almost none of them and making money out of all of them-or nearly all. Shrewd lawyer, he first buys a few shares in a company, then ploughs his way through charters, bylaws, reorganization plans, indentures, until he turns up a crop of legal weeds. Company officials are duly informed of irregularities. If they do not see fit to buy up his stock at a thumping good price, into the courts goes Old Man Venner, pleading the cause of a poor, downtrodden minority stockholder...
Wall Street admits that Old Man Venner is probably without a legal peer in corporation transactions. He used to thumb over documents himself but now maintains a sizeable research staff. Intensely secretive, only he can tell how many of his big suits were settled out of court. Officials of a company with branches scattered throughout South America remember that a Venner disciple discovered he was entitled, as a stockholder, to inspect all the books-and demanded his right. After balancing the costs of transporting records from all its remote branches to Manhattan and back, the officers decided...
...York there are 730 mi. of subways, 137 mi. of elevated. They transport nearly 2,000,000,000 people annually at 50 a ride and are continually in financial, legal or political wrangles which practically nobody comprehends. But one thing is clear: the El, with fresh air and plenty of scats but less convenient, loses money...