Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposedly having the effect of law, in the period of one year, a total which greatly exceeds the volume of all Federal statutes now in effect. . . .* Under these circumstances even lawyers are unable to ascertain the law applicable to a given state of facts, and the presumption that every citizen knows the law becomes, to term it mildly, more than violent...
...greatest amusement of all was at the White House. Jouett Shouse had told the President in advance about plans for ALL, had asked him whether he had any objections. None whatever, the President had replied; the League's aims could be subscribed to by every good citizen. But when newshawks walked into his press conference, after ALL had appeared in headlines, Franklin Roosevelt was roaring with laughter. He told how that morning, while he sat in bed looking over the newspapers, he had seen that Wall Street was reported to regard the League as "the answer to a prayer...
...Editorial discretion on the nudity of a private citizen took different forms. Some editors, perhaps mindful that Photographer Chapman was jeopardized by Pennsylvania's strict laws against contributing to the delinquency of a minor, tossed the prints aside. In Pittsburgh the Sun-Telegraph printed the swimming pose. So did the New York Daily News and the Omaha Bee-News. Hearst's New York American delicately restored Kaletta's bathing suit before publication. At least one newspaper dared to print Kaletta naked on the rock. It was the Knoxville Journal...
...citizen of Hankinson, S. C. wanted to know how Hampton Pitts Fulmer, his Representative at Washington, voted on the major measures of the New Deal, he would probably have to go to a good deal of bother. What he or any other citizen of the U. S. could not do until this week was to send 5? to a Manhattan address and receive the New Deal votes of all 96 Senators, all 435 Representatives...
...German submarines and Zeppelins. When he first reported on guns big enough to bombard Paris from a distance of 75 miles, nobody would believe him. He made a fortune out of his spying, retired after the War to his native village where he is now a wealthy, highly-respected citizen...