Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Bolivia: Announced a legal holiday with a two-minute period of silence. Hundreds of students and public authorities scrambled up Cerro Rico, the peak from which Bolivar first saw the country that was to bear his name...
Colombia: Declared a legal holiday, held open-air masses, military reviews. Villagers of San Pedro Alejandro eagerly awaited a golden wreath being flown from New York by Pan American Airways. In the farmhouse where Bolivar died, a golden crown was unveiled in the death chamber by President Olaya Herrera...
...ordinary layman," said the Honorable Justice, leaning back in his chair, "has little conception of the repulsive amount of false evidence that is given in court. Complaint is sometimes made of the length of legal proceedings. If perjury could be stopped the length of the trials would, in the large majority of cases, be incredibly short...
Wets in the Finnish Diet, parliament of the world's No. 2 Prohibition country, did their best to give a handsome Christmas present to thirsty Finns last week. They introduced a bill to raise the alcoholic content of legal beer from 1.6% to 3% by weight.* The measure was rejected (97-86) but, impressed by the closeness of the vote, the Cabinet ministers dropped unofficial but important hints that so soon as the ice is out of the lakes and canals next spring, the Government will introduce laws preparatory to a national referendum on Prohibition. (Finland's present...
...nations may be determined by the possession of available petroleum and its products. . . . Over- production in itself encourages cheapness, which in turn leads to wastefulness and disregard of essential values." Fear of anti-trust prosecution has retarded oil curtailment in the U. S. In certain states there seems no legal way to coerce small producers. The Federal Oil Conservation Board has suggested a six-day refinery week; the American Petroleum Institute since its organization in 1920 has championed curtailment; California's law prohibiting the waste of natural gas has been a way to force reduced production. Now many oilmen...