Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier Pierlot did not budge. His Government set a deadline for surrender of Resistance weapons, on pain of "legal proceedings." He said: "We want liberty with order." Said Britain's Major General G. W. E. J. Erskine, head of the Allied Military Mission in Belgium: "Allied forces will assist the Government with the view of insuring respect for law and order because both are essential for the conduct of military operations...
...State officials estimated that 44,637,000 citizens including servicemen, will vote on Nov. 7. This would be about 5,000,000 more than pollsters estimated two months ago but, because wartime immigration has deprived hundreds of thousands of potential voters of a legal residence, it would also be 5,000,000 fewer than voted...
...France also had moral obligations to the Spanish Maquis. Through the League of Nations the French Government was seeking legal status* for some 50,000 refugees from Spain. Did this mean that Spanish exiles would henceforth be allowed to carry on political activities in France? Said the Qua! d'Orsay: "It is not yet certain...
...skin-of-the-teeth days, when a Japanese invasion of Hawaii was more than a possibility, U.S. authorities declared that ordinary U.S. greenbacks were no longer legal currency. Greenbacks overprinted with the word "Hawaii" were substituted. Reason: if Hawaii were captured the monetary loot would consist of nothing more than "invasion money" which could not be used in international exchange...
Last week Hawaii's Governor Ingram M. Stainback announced that the overprint money would be discontinued as fast as it is used up, that regular U.S. currency was again legal. Admiral Nimitz, as commander of the Pacific Ocean areas (Kwajalein, Saipan, Peleliu, etc.), where the "Hawaii" greenbacks have also been used, concurred...