Word: legally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Laughlin" have been camouflaged under the name of 'welfare legislation,' but . . . relegate women to jobs so undesirable and poorly paid that men do not want them. President Coolidge told the delegation that when a majority of U. S. women were unmistakably in favor wiping out all legal differentiation between the sexes, they would undoubtedly carry their point. He said, smiling, that men have a habit of giving women what they want...
Before adjourning last week, the Chamber declared Sept. 19, 1927, a legal holiday, in honor of the expected arrival on that date of 30,000 U. S. men and women at the American Legion Convention in Paris (TIME, May 2). Further, the Chamber appropriated 3,700,000 francs ($145,000) for the Legionnaires' entertainment and decreed the issuing of a special postage stamp to be licked by Legionnaires and stuck upon their letters home. Many of these stamps, valid for the convention period only, will be treasured by thrifty recipients, locked away in strong boxes, brought out decades hence...
...forbidden for a man to be alone in a hotel room with a woman who is not his wife, sister or mother. A simple kiss in the park is a legal offense. Adultery is actually considered a crime. But that does not keep the Americans from yielding to nature's demands, with the result that there exists a general state of dissimulation and hypocrisy that is rotting the soul of America...
...Monrovia, Liberian capital, it became known last week that Mr. Francis had been for 19 years employed as a legal assistant for the Northern Pacific railroad. In 1924 he was chairman of the Colored Division of the Republican National Committee. "Ah," thought many Liberians, "Minister Francis has deserved honorably and well of President Coolidge...
...cheered many Democrats with the happy thought that the next President would be chosen from the Democratic party. But with the death of President Harding and the advent of President Coolidge the oil scandals slipped out of the headlines and into the courts and, what with the slowness of legal procedure and the public willingness to trade old sensations for new, Teapot Dome and Elk Hills ceased to agitate the popular mind...