Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other side of the world from Washington, however, that was brewing which might make the Kellogg Treaty absurd on the first day of its legal existence. Soviet Russia and Nationalist China, two of the signatories of the pact, were on the explosive verge...
...tenth anniversary of Prohibition (Jan. 16, 1930) U. S. distilleries will be steaming fragrantly in the legitimate production of whiskey. Their activities will be altogether legal and aboveboard, with no Dry raids, no protesting outcries from irate prohibitors...
...National Association of Manufacturers (membership: 50,000). Witness Edgerton had been arguing at length before the committee in behalf of increased "flexibility" in the new tariff bill. Others who had demanded the same thing were Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor; Chester Gray, legal representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Lerch, counsel of the American Tariff League. Mr. Lerch also called for a change from foreign to domestic valuation in administering the new tariff bill...
California's Senator Shortridge called for "human consideration rather than legal technicalities," extenuated the offense on the ground of "patriotism and zeal to serve." Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, who has a son of his own keen on the sea, was understanding. At a signal from him, color-blind Candidate Rupp was set free, sent home to his parents...
...warehouses in which 15,000,000 gallons of liquor are stored. The liquor is private property held for legal sale as medicine. In bonded storage the U. S. stands stern guard over it, with agents to gauge its quantity, to test its quality, to control its withdrawal for drug-store purpose. Last week its was revealed in Chicago that some 50,000 gallons of such closely-guarded liquor had somehow gotten out of government bondage. It was the biggest "escape" of its kind in the history of Prohibition...