Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...journalism, got a law degree, hung out his shingle and became an apostle of reform. He was freed from the need of working for a living when he married Mrs. Anna Wilmarth Thompson, a wealthy divorcee. Between cultivating dahlias and collecting stamps, he annoyed Sam Insull, gave his legal talents free to Jane Addams of Hull House...
...island bases which, in turn, would give the U.S. control of the Pacific. At both Paris peace conferences (1899 and 1919) it lost. Last week, the Navy showed that it was out to get the bases this time, and no mistake. Without waiting for diplomats to settle the legal status of islands once held by the Japs, the bare-knuckled admirals laid their own proposal before Congress...
...Legal Mind. Among the 5,000 New York-Connecticut residents who would be evicted from their pleasant properties by the world capital were numerous lawyers, most of whom seemed busy last week hunting for a loophole. The whole idea of giving up U.S. soil for an international zone, they said hopefully, might be unconstitutional...
...Washington, where State Department lawyers were scratching their heads, it was conceded that UNO offered plenty of legal problems-but constitutionality was not one of them. The Government planned, by treaty, simply to "assign" the world capital area to UNO-without ceding the territory or relinquishing sovereignty over it. UNO could buy up the property directly from its owners (as the State Department wistfully hoped it would), or ask the Government to seize it by right of eminent domain...
...prolific writer, who dictated more than 150 intriguing tales of intrigue (sometimes four at once to four stenographers) ; at St.-Peter-Port, on Guernsey. Acrawl with femmes fatales and rifled dispatch cases, "Opp's" novels were only more frequently fraught with fantastics than his life: he made poker legal in England, twice almost broke the bank at Monte Carlo, once captured a German...