Word: legally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...varied between 16 and 52. Poor parents, the League charged, get around the compulsory education laws and get their daughters to help earn their board and keep, by consenting to their marriage at 14 or 15. Now the League seeks the enactment of a law that will raise the legal age at which girls may be married with the parental blessing from 14 to 16 years...
...Supreme Court did not decide the case last week. But the pay of the lawyers continued. Large sums they were, because the litigants, both potent in Wall Street, went to Wall Street for their legal aid. And Wall Street, because it does attract financial genius, ipse facto attracts legal genius...
Like an extraordinary and super-legal bodyguard the Fascist Militia bristles round Signor Mussolini, a band of tried and loyal men, armed, and conscious that their one duty is to protect, obey and follow II Duce. Last week the code of this arch-Fascist volunteer corps was embodied into a "Decalogue for the Perfect Fascist Militia...
...engaged in the practice of law in Chicago. . . . Mr. Morgan was interested in the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway, known as the Outer Belt Line of Chicago. . . . Having information which was not in possession of Mr. Morgan or his legal staff, I saw instantly that his plan would not work. 'You can't do that under the law,' I explained. 'I don't hire lawyers to tell me what I can't do,' was Mr. Morgan's [famed] report. 'I hire them to tell me how to do what I want them...
...Timekeeper. He holds a regulation stopwatch and cries out to the Quizzer when 15 seconds have elapsed (the legal time limit between questions...