Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed to put New Orleans into the slot-machine business by licensing some 3,000 city-owned "one-armed bandits"; to license legal bookmakers (at $25 a day); and slap a 20% levy on race wire services' gross receipts...
...monetary magician set out from London with a starting capital of ?75 (the legal maximum which may be taken out of the country), after being well briefed by the British resident agent of an international ring. On deplaning in Geneva, he exchanged his pounds for Swiss francs at the official rate of 17 Swiss francs per pound. He picked up a silk shirt and a silver cigaret lighter, reserved one Swiss franc for carfare. Before going on to France, he handed the remaining 1,200 Swiss francs to the ring's Swiss operative (France does not permit travelers...
...childhood on, Thorez read everything he could lay his hamlike hands on. Today he can gallop through a technical book, or one on philosophy or art, and then give without a stumble a half-hour precis of its contents. In lectures and debates at the Sorbonne, in meetings of legal and philosophical societies, he shines-a grinning, grown-up Quiz-kid with a cowlick over his forehead...
...that civilization's taste for justice was jaded, or that preparations for the trial of high Japanese war criminals had been halfhearted. Allied legal authorities had worked on the 55 -count indictment for eight months. Much care had gone into fitting the courtroom with dark, walnut-toned paneling, imposing daises, convenient perches for the press and motion picture cameramen. The klieg lights suggested a Hollywood premiere...
William Julius Hobbs, 42, was elected president of the Coca-Cola Co., after ten years as an RFC lawyer, only four years with Coca-Cola. Bill Hobbs left RFC's Atlanta office to reorganize Coca-Cola's musty legal department, caught the eye of Coca-Cola's Robert Winship Woodruff. From then on, Bill Hobbs fizzed up to a vice-presidency, moved to New York to head the Coca-Cola Export Co. As president, Bill Hobbs will be second only to Bob Woodruff, who was acting president, and will continue as board chairman...