Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Call. Three days later, in Calcutta, while he was receiving friends' congratulations on his hard-won fight for legal life, Roy suffered a lung hemorrhage, died the next morning. Two doctors signed his death certificate and his body was thoroughly and finally cremated at Calcutta's Keoratolla Ghat. This time witnesses stayed...
...some 75,000 Indians who live communally on the fringes of predominantly white Argentina, the scene was less tranquil. They feared for their land. At the turn of the century, smart operators had sold title to the Indians' land to absentee landlords. Now the legal owners were trying to move the Indians out. To dramatize their indignation, some 200 Indians last week marched into Buenos Aires after a 1,000-mile cross-pampas trek...
Today racial intermarriage is legal in 18 states, and Negro passing is becoming easier. But the No. 1 authority on U.S. Negroes, Sweden's Gunnar Myrdal, thinks that amalgamation of U.S. whites and Negroes is highly unlikely, because of: 1) a decline in the number of mulatto bastards, who were the products of much blood-mixing in the 19th Century; 2) Negro inbreeding, which will make white-blooded Negroes darker and level the race at a middling brown...
...always in their hands. ... If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say . . . there are no slain. . . ." In his opening speech eight weary months ago, Jackson had boldly raised the question of the trial's moral and legal basis. He avoided that overriding issue in his closing speech. The omission was not widely noted. The world public would be content to see the Nürnberg criminals die, but it had not got around to distinguishing between criminal and legal war. Until the world public - or a considerable...
...Caffrey, 48, the SEC had a chairman Wall Street liked. A graduate of Harvard, Jim Caffrey had joined SEC in 1935 after twelve years of legal practice in his native Boston. He made a name for himself by handling more fraud cases than any other SEC man. He also made a name as a man who knew Wall Street's problems and talked its language, a man who regarded SEC strictly as a regulatory agency, not a political club. Most Wall Streeters thought they would get along fine with Jim Caffrey...