Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that all revenue measures shall originate in the House. Only a handful of Representatives, however, can even understand much less originate a tax bill, for the Federal tax structure has grown so complicated that Congress has practically to turn it over to a small professional group of mathematical and legal wizards...
...womanhood as was usually claimed (he found rape charged in less than one lynching in five*), but to shackle and harry a growing economic competitor. Rope & Faggot also maintained that lynch law dated back to Colonial days when a Quaker named Charles Lynch sat as magistrate in an extra-legal court at what is now Lynchburg, Va., to try horse thieves, to the 18305 when a St. Louis judge, aptly named Lawless, advised a jury that mob murder was "beyond the reach of law." The N. A. A. C. P. record still is that after 99.4% of U. S. lynchings...
...began as general counsel for RFC, having been hired away from the Farm Board to serve Jesse Jones in 1932. When, working with RFC's staff of 75 lawyers as many as 18 hours a day during the bank holiday, he managed to keep abreast of the tremendous legal complexities involved in demands for RFC help from thousands of banks in 48 States, Attorney General Cummings was impressed. When New Dealer Cummings borrowed Lawyer Reed to conduct the Government's successful defense of a collateral gold clause case before the Supreme Court in 1935 he was still more...
...Cape Town bookseller has a copy. After it had been damned as an insult to Boer heroes, "filthy," discourteous, inaccurate, misleading to foreign readers, Minister of the Interior Stuttaford banned the book with a ruling that stopped importation of new copies. Claiming that the ban was political, with no legal excuse given, the English publishers announced: "The Government feared the loss in the forthcoming elections of a number of Dutch votes. . . ." Said Minister Stuttaford: "Personally I would recommend the book to anyone-except, of course, to a Sunday School...
...school students. It is submitted that great diversity would have resulted. Of course the best indication of the fact that the questions were legitimate grounds for speculation is the fact that Mr. Kranz himself has researched concerning question five, producing a subtle and interesting truth worthy of the legal world. His use of the term "pressure of business" takes us back to the good old academic days of the court plan...