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Word: legalizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia, and see that they got there. He was living in the Lincoln Room at the White House, and had the President's ear night & day. When Franklin Roosevelt tried to have the Neutrality Act repealed, Harry Hopkins lay down on his couch one day after lunch, called in legal counsel, and dictated a message to Congress in 90 minutes. It was delivered, over the President's signature, with hardly a comma changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidential Agent | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...three years the Administration had juggled the nation's manpower, substituting makeshifts for direct action. Reflecting on the legal machinery available, Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes philosophized: "When you can't ride a horse, ride a mule; if you can't ride a mule, ride a cow." But at week's end the Administration sounded like a man who hoped to ride a horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER: Riding the Cow | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...institutions $292 billion on Government borrowing. This was nearly $61 billion more than it now owes them, $32 billion more than the law allows. Franklin Roosevelt served the obvious notice that during the year Congress would be asked to raise the U.S. debt limit, make more U.S. borrowing legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Uncertain Billions | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...physical facilities of the Law School have been largely turned over to the use of the various training schools of the armed forces. Many of the traditional features of the School, such as the Ames Competition and the student Legal Aid Bureau, have been discontinued for the duration. The return of Dean Landis, however, portends a gradual return to normal conditions, a return which will be necessarily slow because of the many problems posed by the returning servicemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Landis Will Return to Law School From Egypt Next Month | 12/29/1944 | See Source »

...want the baby and she didn't want me." He wrote to Rose, telling her the whole story. Rose did not reply. It took several months in a Newfoundland court, but Nurse St. Croix gladly signed the papers which made Arthur the baby's sole legal guardian. The preoccupied U.S. Army gave Private Whitehouse a 32-day emergency furlough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Whitehouse's Baby | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

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