Word: conformal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tongue, wrangling with churchmen and standpatters, touching off a conflagration of protest. One of Judge Lindsey's pet anathemas has been what he calls "bootleg divorce," i. e. divorce by amicable agreement but fixed up to look as though one party had been wronged by the other, to conform to the law. He violently wants to change that...
...Senator James Couzens, the only Republican the President could get to serve. To silence its sideline coaching, the President still hoped to send Congress home before the W. E. C. opens June 12. But he had not yet submitted legislation empowering him to juggle tariff rates to conform with any bargains struck at London...
...would resist the tendency can rely only on President Roosevelt. Perhaps he foresees such an emergency, since he intends to have the Congressional measures passed bestowing upon him control over the inflation program. To prevent an excessive expansion of the currency, doubtless in the face of public opinion, would conform to the aggressiveness which President Roosevelt has shown since his inauguration...
...board. It is no great compliment to the intelligence of the Massachusetts State Legislature to say that that bill was defeated. The Attorney General reflects the legislative attitude when he suggests that either the law must be changed to cut down the number of weeks or the schools must conform to the present ruling. It requires certainly no profound thought to see that if these qualifications for applicants are to signify anything save the utter ridiculous the quantitative method must give way immediately to the more intelligent method...
...following conditions which are based on the same divine law, namely: that every danger of perversion of the Catholic spouse on the part of the non-Catholic spouse may be removed and that all the offspring may be baptized and educated in the Catholic faith, she promises to conform to this fully with the consent also of her future spouse, who confirms this by signing hereunder...