Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second requirement was not so simple: good-conduct clearance from the local town hall. Other braceros, however, provided a tip. Serrano could pester officials and wait-or he could put up a few hundred pesos to bribe the "coyote," a man with unexplained but indisputable pull among town officials. Coyote Raúl Díaz readily confirmed the advice. "You pay," he said, "and you go." Serrano was bewildered and angry. "We are needed," he argued. "We are asked to go. Why should...
...municipal government will lease the brothels to private operators, who must conform to a stringent regulatory code. Each establishment will house no more than 16 prostitutes, all of whom must obtain good-conduct certificates from the police. Prostitutes must be at least 22 years old, customers at least 18. Every prostitute will have a legal right to reject any customer she finds unacceptible. As a final touch of austerity, the code strictly forbids any drinking, dancing or gambling on the premises...
...point, his purpose accomplished, Louis Wolfson rose, oozing charity, and asked an end to the bull-baiting. "It seems that Mr. Avery is not in a position today to conduct this meeting," he said. "I will appreciate it if you will accept Mr. Barr as chairman." Then, in an aside, Wolfson told reporters: "This is the greatest corporate fraud ever perpetrated...
...Alfred and France's Louis IX. An odd list, but it is easy to see what those who drew it up had in mind. They wanted to express the universality of the idea of law. Lycurgus and Confucius, Zoroaster and Alfred stand for very disparate systems of conduct-and the Appellate Division was not necessarily buying any of them. All it wanted to say in marble was that all the systems partake of the notion that man's nature calls for rules of behavior...
...suits for breach of promise or alienation of affections. In 1946, however, the Illinois Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional, saying that it "tends to put a premium on the violation of moral law, making those who violate the law a privileged class, free to pursue a course of conduct without fear of punishment, even to the extent of a suit for damages...