Word: edict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Moody's edict said: "I hope the officers find the persons who set fire to the courthouse. . . . Send these persons to the penitentiary. . . . Firing on [soldiers] was treasonable...
...quietus on some Texans who were hawking Rio Grande valley land through the Wisconsin back country. The Wisconsin Board claimed that the Texas land was no good, that it had been misrepresented by its boosters. When the Board found that its own secretary, John L. Newman, had defied its edict by purchasing a ten-acre citrus farm in the forbidden valley, it promptly discharged...
...wheels of a precedent of three years standing, the fear of scorn from other classes forced the sophomores to carry out a performance which many thought "fool-hardy and dangerous." Acting directly counter to a student-faculty agreement, the student committee was not consulted until the evening following the edict depriving them of cuts...