Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bridge across the Golden Gate. Last week exactly half that time had elapsed since a $35,000,000 bond issue was voted to finance the Golden Gate Suspension Bridge.? But not a single strand of cable swung silhouetted against the sunset. The two years have been filled with legal wrangling...
...known to make it needful for anyone to vouch for them. His abilities and his acknowledged placed as one of the leaders in thought among lawyers and law teachers speak for themselves." At the same time, he was termed as one of ablest and most profound members of the legal profession in the country by Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, retired associate justice of the United States Supreme Court...
...tumult outside, inside the Capitol in the shadowy chambers of the Supreme Court nine old white men reviewed the case of seven young Negroes convicted at Scottsboro, Ala., spring before last, of raping two white girl hoboes in a box car. Political libertarians called the death sentences "legal lynching," but Alabama's Supreme Court had upheld the verdict of the lower bench. Gratified were Liberals when the U. S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion. Seven-to-two it decided that the Scottsboro Negroes, "young, illiterate, ignorant," had not had adequate legal representation at their original trial, were entitled...
...mane, "it is simply a question-to use almost textually the expressions which on two occasions the American Secretary of State has used-of considering that since by common accord all civilized nations have outlawed war any nation making war now can no longer continue to profit by the legal rights of belligerents. "War being outlawed, it is logical that he who wages war shall be deprived of the economic aid without which adventures of this kind could get nowhere in the modern world. It is necessary at the same time that it be known in advance that any result...
Next day began the fight in which Samuel Insull hopes to escape at some point from the legal net which might drag him back to the U. S. to be tried for 'larceny and embezzlement of property of the value of $66,000." The first round of the fight started when Mr. Insull's lawyer, Cristos Ladas, went before the Greek Court of Appeals. He claimed that the extradition treaty was not retroactive, and that Mr. Insull was innocent anyway. In a crowded courtroom he thundered at the five judges. It was all Greek to Samuel Insull...