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Word: legally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...River flood control plans last week prompted President Hoover to hold up construction contracts pending further legal surveys by his Secretary of War and Attorney General. Con-troversy was renewed over flowage rights across river lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Visitations | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Last week the Stevens management reversed its policy, freely served what guests asked for. Reason: Dry patrons had protested the Dry order, resented the implication that they would put legal beverages to illegal purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Dry Ice | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...Comstock, stately, broad-minded president of Radcliffe College. As a political independent, she has kept her Prohibition views strictly to herself. Soon after her appointment she was asked, of course, if she was related to the late great Reformer Anthony Comstock. She replied: "There is no traceable connection." Her legal credo is this: "I believe in as few rules as possible and a rigid enforcement of the rules that do exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Commission | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...raid on Mrs. Sanger's Birth Control Clinic in New York and the conviction of Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett for publishing a pamphlet simplifying sex problems for young people. Although in certain matters the police overstepped their authority in the clinic raid both actions were for the most part legal under the present statutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FORCE OF THE FACTS | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...represented the O'Fallon, Frederick H. Wood of Manhattan's famed law firm of Cravath de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, represented the big-brother carriers. The I. C. C. accepted the challenge, named Chicago's Walter L. Fisher, Taft-time Secretary of the Interior, to fight its legal battle. Before a Federal Court at St. Louis, the O'Fallon contended that it and the Manufacturers' R. R. were one, and should be so valued. The O'Fallon's excess profits on this basis would have been equalized by the Manufacturers' lack of profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: O'Fallon v. The People | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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