Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Authority held a staff meeting, sent the squatters letters asking them to get out. It was explained that the apartments had been left vacant, not through carelessness, but because the CHA had insisted on repairs before taking possession. Meanwhile other veterans, who had applied for the disputed apartments through legal channels, also began to protest-some had been waiting for housing for a year...
...months American businessmen had operated in China in a kind of legal vacuum, created by the U.S.'s renunciation of extraterritoriality in 1943. This week they were back on firmer ground, although the "Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation" between the U.S. and China, signed recently at Nanking, did not restore the old license for freebooting exploitation...
...Euthanasia Society of America, which vouches for the story, cites it as an indication that many doctors favor "mercy killing" in extreme cases. Last week the society started a widely backed drive to make euthanasia legal. It announced that 1,500 New York doctors and 54 eminent clergymen (among them: Union Theological Seminary's President Henry Sloan Coffin, Riverside Church's Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick) had joined in sponsoring a euthanasia bill which they hope to get introduced in the New York State Legislature...
Representing varying views on the situation in the Far East, the three speakers will discuss the separate parts of the overall issue which each studies while in China. Professor Pound, outstanding legal theorist, is to outline the development of a system of Chinese law, a project he has recently completed. Lindsay, son of Lord Lindsay, English political scientist, will describe the activities of the Chinese Communists during the war. The visiting lecturer spent two years with the Red forces during the far-cast conflict...
When it came to evening dresses, U.S. designers had gone on a spree. Necklines were down to the legal limit, tops were frankly lacy. Designs ranged from elaborate peacockery to sexy sheaths of black sequins, to puffs of lace topped with sparkling rhinestones...