Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...20th Century, the Christians make a pretty poor showing, on the whole. It is they who suffer from delusions of grandeur and indulge freely in insults and jibes; it is they who . . . mouth words like mercy and justice, only to evade an honest bargain by means of a cheap legal trick...
...boss of one of the noisiest and most pertinacious minority parties in U.S. history, which now, generally discredited, was fighting for its life. Lawyers for the defense argued that fundamental rights of U.S. citizens, such as the right of free political thought, were at stake in the case. The legal battle would certainly go to the Supreme Court. Secretary Dennis was the cynosure among the other ten Communists on trial with him. He was surrounded by an aura of mystery. According to the party's carefully manufactured legend, he had come out of the lumber camps of the Northwest...
Melvin L. Zurier '50 and Jerome B. Spunt '50 worked together at Brown to disprove the feasibility of outlawing the party. They held that the action would be bad for the country on legal, practical, and moral grounds...
...change in policy was announced by United World Films after they were threatened with legal Films after they were threatened with legal action. The organization stopped supplying the Liberal Union seven weeks ago after several local theaters had protested the competition...
...success was the unsparing use of his apparently boundless nervous energy. At one time, besides his duties as head of a Methodist girls' school, he edited a newspaper, ran the Anti-Saloon League, speculated heavily on Wall Street and was one of the most active lobbyists for legal morality in Washington. His handling of political contributions became a national scandal, but he successfully defied congressional committees that sought to bring him to heel. Once he walked out of a public hearing after refusing to testify. Brought before both civil and ecclesiastical courts he always got off scot free, though...