Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court (Errors and Appeals), landed a new job. Appointed judge in 1939 by Hagueman Governor A. Harry Moore (who remarked at the time, "I know this will make his dad happy"), young Frank had no chance at reappointment by G.O.P. Governor Walter Edge, snapped at an offer to do legal work in New Dealer Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration. New salary bracket: $3,600 to $4,200 yearly...
General Electric planned and carried out its foreign agreements under the guidance of eminent legal counsel. .. . Among them: the late, great Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War in the Wilson Cabinet, and one of the great exponents of classical liberalism. Newton Baker had made a study of G.E.'s foreign contracts in 1922 (when, Francis Biddle now charges, it was violating the law). Baker's conclusion: without the contracts or some other arrangement, U.S. electrical knowledge would be denied necessary access to the advanced and valuable developments abroad...
...suits against many another big war producer-e.g., Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Republic Steel Corp. About all these companies could do was to go on producing, while they waited to see what would happen next. Some of Biddle's flamboyant legal ventures-e.g., the abortive mass trial of alleged seditionists in Washington, his garishly publicized attempt to close up a Washington call-house-have come grotesque croppers. But the cartel and trade agreements suits might be more carefully handled, more determinedly pursued...
...biggest problem, Mansfield conceded that unity was easier to talk about than to achieve. He made known the terms of Chiang's latest offer to the Communists: 1) recognition as a legal party; 2) equipment for the Communist Army on the basis of equality; 3) participation in the Government...
...Prime Minister also said that if General McNaughton were elected, the session would be short, and that there would be a general election call "within a few months," certainly before Parliament's legal life ends April...