Word: civile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sugar manufacture rather than agriculture; 2) that the Government was estopped from withdrawing the Hermanos franchise because the law had been neglected so long. Down from the bench came a contrary opinion canceling the Hermanos franchise and imposing a fine of $3,000 (the statute violation is a civil, not criminal offense). As for Rubert Hermanos' contention, crackled Associate Justice Martin Travieso...
...judicial district. A competent trial lawyer, fanatical bird hunter, Methodist, he campaigned under Crump-McKellar direction simply as a Roosevelt New Dealer who would be sure to vote right. WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins, in Memphis attending a WPA conference, coolly declared: "WTPA workers have the right to vote and have civil liberties like anyone else. I don't see anything wrong in soliciting their votes." Getting the WPA vote out for Tom Stewart had been half the Crump-McKellar strategy...
...During the day it is His Britannic Majesty's Government, while from nightfall to daybreak it is the rebels' government," cracked Arab villagers. The Oozlebarts, operating under an "unknown generalissimo" with headquarters at Damascus, have set up their own civil and military courts. Arab villagers prefer to take their squabbles to Oozlebart civil courts, which apply Islamic law and charge nothing (Palestine court fees are notoriously high). Oozlebart military courts dispense quick justice, sometimes death, to Arabs caught selling land to Jews...
...announcing that Lord Runciman will go to Prague this week-"not to arbitrate but to advise and mediate"-Britain's Prime Minister, grizzled Neville Chamberlain, set up peace machinery as original as the Non-intervention Committee France and Britain set up two years ago to keep the Spanish Civil War from becoming a general conflict. In entangling Britain in a dangerous European quarrel, the Prime Minister tried to preserve British isolation by explaining in the House of Commons that Lord Runciman will go to Prague with no official status, merely as a bifurcated animal representing no one but himself...
...shoe and smelting stock in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, utilities in honor of Tom Mooney, and so on through all the martyrs of radicalism. Meanwhile he has married a poor, tuberculous girl, returned to Spain to finance an uprising. A hero in the first days of the Spanish Civil War, Cristobal suggests buying off the Rebels, goes down because he has held his ten-billion-dollar ace too long...