Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first Institute of Comparative Law in the United States will be founded at Harvard this Fall to afford the students of law in the newly enlarged Harvard Law School a concrete basis of ideas from the law of other countries on which to build the legal reforms of the future...
...this time, Groucho's make-up was completely erased, and, after he had donned his horn-rimmed glasses, he looked a strange mixture of the legal and the professorial. One would almost have decided that there wasn't a trace of the typical actor about him until the eye paused doubtfully at the spectacle of pleated trousers...
...bullying solution of the Constitutional issue: Let Parliament be convened in some other city than Socialist Vienna. Heimwehr troops with pistol and bludgeon would then keep the Socialist Deputies from, attending. In their absence the desired amendment would easily pass. By way of pretense that this solution would be legal, the Reichspost quoted Article XXV of the Austrian Constitution: "Under exceptional conditions, Parliament may sit in any other part of Austria away from Vienna...
...that is the possibility of its leading to sexual promiscuity. But that argument grows weaker daily, for men and women are daily growing more promiscuous anyway." The American Birth Control League has called for a first national conference on birth control, "to consider its social, moral, religious, economic and legal aspects." Place: Manhattan. Time...
...Stoughton Bell, a Cambridge lawyer and member of the Harvard Law Association, presented to President Lowell a portrait of Dean Pound painted by Charles Hopkinson of Boston. Under Secretary of State Joseph P. Cotton in his speech to the assemblage pointed out the unique role being played in American legal teaching by the Harvard Law School and urged the need for disinterested advice on the part of legal authorities to statesmen and others who formulate the country's laws...