Word: enact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Berliners were free to make merry all night long in the city's pleasure spots last week because the police had neglected to re-enact the curfew law, Germany's political aspect became even more complex. Observers pondered the following puzzling developments...
...Wiesbaden in the early evening the 82-year-old Field-Marshal showed his only sign of strain. He excused himself from watching hundreds of schoolchildren enact the jubilation of the Elbe, the Voder, the Danube and several other German rivers at the liberation of "Their Sister, the Rhine...
...effectiveness on the part of the state and local governmental agencies in enforcing the liquor laws. . . . It was not contemplated that the Federal Government would assume the entire burden of enforcement . . . or create an enormous police force. . . . True, there is no legal way of compelling state legislatures to enact enforcement statutes or to compel state authorities to aid in enforcement. ... In those states which have repealed enforcement statutes and whose authorities do not perform a proper share of the work, there will continue to be grave deficiencies in enforcement. Where such conditions exist, they are a matter of choice with...
...fallacy underlying so disturbing a premise. In the first place, what Representative Williamson is pleased to term the "nullification doctrine" of the present day bears slight similarity to the nullification doctrine which precipitated the Civil War. The former rests simply on the assumed right of Congress to refuse to enact subsidiary legislation to the Eighteenth Amendment since it is not directly obligated to do so. The latter assumes the right of an individual state to annul legislation distasteful...