Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reiland, "greatly disappointed," did not despair. For he too had legal counsel: Lawyers Robert Fulton Cutting, civic-minded Manhattan millionaire (TIME, Feb. 14, 1927) and George Woodward Wickersham, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney-General, now chairman of President Hoover's law-enforcement commission. They had assured him that the prayer book's prohibition refers to "church" in the sense of "congregation" and would not apply to the loan of a building. Though he tactfully yielded to the bishop's "official admonition," Dr. Reiland felt his legal position was as good as his bishop...
Public confidence was helped when the Stock Exchange requested its members to report details on all sales and short stock, a privilege not used since the War. Although there is of course no legal wrong in selling short, few big operators would care to be exposed as "raiding the market," especially in a period when a decline might carry along U. S. prosperity. And if the "bear pool" were found to be an actuality, disclosure of its identity would enable powerful bulls to determine exactly how much pressure would be needed to destroy...
Blindness Defined. Fixing on a definition of blindness was a difficulty. The U. S. definition is "inability to see well enough to read even with the aid of glasses," or for illiterates "inability to distinguish forms and objects with sufficient distinctness." The Society prefers the British legal description: "too blind to be able to read the ordinary school books used by children," and "unable to perform any work for which eyesight is essential." A one-eyed person is not blind technically. Nor is the usual near-sighted person...
...Metz's doctor, Ames Lawrence Filiponne of Newark, last week stated that Edward Metz, 6, born after Mrs. Metz had worked for U. S. Radium Corp., was also suffering from the same poison, acquired in utero. The child's affliction, if proved, promised to raise fine medico-legal points. Is he the victim of industrial hazard? Can a concern be held liable for the ills of its employees' descendants...
...Radio at 43¼, General Motors at 45¼. The market except at the very opening was dull as though it were tired. But it seemed to rest securely. Stock Exchange Governors ordered the Exchange closed after 1 o'clock Wednesday, Thursday, Friday; all day Saturday. Tuesday was a legal holiday (election day). Thus was further rest insured...