Word: conformance
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...erty. In discussing the appointment of General Smedley Butler as Anti-Alcohol Dictator of Philadelphia, it was reported as "politely inferring" that: "It appears all is not well in the land of liberty, particularly in Phildelphia, where they have to call out the Marine Corps to make the people conform to laws they evidently do not like." The Chamber of Deputies voted an appropriation of 15,000,000 francs for the relief of sufferers from "floods, tidal waves, avalanches, forest fires and other calamities." Communists in Paris decided to hold a Ruhr protest meeting. They secured the Syndicalist Hall...
...single member of the Reserve Board, Mr. Edmund Platt, dissented from the resolution on the ground that it amounted to forcing state banks to conform to national banking laws...
Fanny Brice, actress: "At Atlantic City I underwent an operation to make my nose conform with my style of beauty. The New York Times remarked editorially that I had had the organ 'condemned and torn down and was about to erect a high-class modern structure on the site...
Said Mr. Houston after the meeting : " American opinion generally is agreed that France is entitled to demand the maximum figure that Germany can pay ; but the total must conform to Germany's ability to meet...
...Russian producer Danchenko announced that he will " modernize " Carmen. That is, he will retain the present musical form as much as possible, but will change the libretto to make it more realistic and conform it as far as possible to the original novel, Carmen, by Prosper M´erim...