Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catalonian autonomous state will make Catalan the official language, fly its own five-barred red-&-yellow flag, control civil, criminal, labor law, railroads, hydroelectric works, grant artistic and literary copyrights, regulate stock exchanges, all police in the province, issue hunting and fishing licenses, and collect monies from the tobacco and match monopolies...
...Wine, Rex, California and Reno Clubs. Hotels and shops formerly estimated the divorce trade to be worth $4,000,000 a year; the gambling houses now are supposed to pay State and county $50 a month for each game, and nobody knows how much this will come to, if collected. Amorous males may go to the fenced-in "Crib" guarded by three policemen, where girls are to be found at all hours. From 300 young women the "Crib" owners collect (according to Investigator Henry F. Pringle of Outlook and Independent) $2.50 a day, pay Reno only a property...
...English law was enacted providing that anyone discovering a theatre open on Sunday might, as a "common informer," sue the proprietor, collect informer's money. The law has never been repealed. When a Miss Millie Orpen discovered this state of affairs, she pounced upon the Sunday-showing Capitol Theatre (cinema) in London with a suit. Last week to all cinemen's dismay, a court awarded Miss Orpen $15,000. But the court was dismayed too. It also awarded the Capitol a stay of execution. Planned were appeal and repeal...
Smarter than Jew Fagin who taught young Oliver Twist to steal, one Clarence Warren, 33, Chicago "tourist," taught a Macaque monkey (the small sort which organ grinders use to collect coins) to pick up and hide small odds & ends from store counters. Clarence Warren named his monkey Clarence. Clarence Macaque and Clarence Warren have been visiting Chicago Woolworth and Kresge stores where well-taught Clarence Macaque shoplifted while the clerks giggled. Last week both Clarences were arrested, jailed...
When an author writes a book or a musician composes an opera, the civilized world has agreed that their interests in those properties do not cease with the first sale. In the U. S. they and their heirs may collect royalties for 28 years with the option of renewing the copyright for an additional 28 years. On July 20, 1920 the French Chamber of Deputies passed a law known as the droit de suite (literally, "right of following") which attempts to do for the original works of a painter or sculptor what copyright laws do for the other arts...