Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal language, what this amounted to was de facto recognition of Hitler's coup, which was far from equivalent to de jure approval. With his official announcement, Mr. Hull gave out a curt statement: "The extent to which the Austrian incident . . . is calculated to endanger the maintenance of peace and the preservation of principles in which this Government believes is of course a matter of serious concern to the Government. . . ." And two days earlier, following Messrs. Chamberlain, Hitler and Mussolini in one of the most extraordinary series of statements of international policies on record, he had clearly if somewhat...
...their final papers; 3) women who married noncitizens before Sept. 22, 1922, and thus were not automatically naturalized when their husbands were; 4) veterans who thought War service made them citizens. But, innocent or not, Cook County's 150,000 assistant Americans in thus being deprived of their legal status, were liable to lose other prerogatives besides their votes, including passports for travel abroad, old-age, blind and mothers' pensions, WPA jobs...
...minute address of Orator Hitler, who usually speaks for some two hours and a half, struck these keynotes: 1) friendship with Mussolini, which drew the loudest Reichstag cheers; 2) denunciation of "Schuschnigg who possessed no legal right of existence!" which drew loudest boos and cries of "Schuschnigg shame!"; 3) announcement that the German Reichstag will dissolve and Germans as well as Austrians will vote in the coming plebiscite April 10, following which a new Reichstag will be seated; 4) declaration that "Germany wants only peace! . . . She is ready, however, to give her last man for honor and existence!";* 5) high...
...newspaperman, but one of the first stories he wrote as a New York Times reporter resulted in a libel suit. Assigned to help frame the defense, Reporter Shearn soon took the law for a livelihood. In the early 90s he became Mr. Hearst's attorney and legal crusader against coal and food combines, has since drawn up most of Mr. and Mrs. Hearst's most intimate documents. In New York Mr. Shearn was defeated as a Democratic Hearst candidate for district attorney and later Governor, but finally won a seat on the State supreme court...
...Roosevelt has won a few pawns but his king is in check. The very act of removing Arthur Morgan made a Congressional investigation inevitable, and the President could only answer that he had always wanted one anyway. By his maneuvering, he now stands to lose an important legal decision, he has aroused public opinion, and the fact of the T.V.A. and other similar organization may be seriously imperilled by the court decision and the investigation of Congress...