Word: forfeits
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...wrote pamphlets, made speeches, got the law on feather merchants and milliners. Last week Manhattan feather merchants, representing 90% of the U. S. industry, agreed to file inventories of their stocks with the New York State Conservation Department, dispose of their wild bird plumage within six years or forfeit it. They will give up all eagle, heron, bird of paradise plumes at once...
WASHINGTON--Alf M. Landon today proposed that the United States help defeat Adolf Hitler with outright subsidies to Great Britain and that, in the interests of successful rearmament, labor temporarily forfeit some of its rights...
...nominee for President. He also let resentful delegates to the Democratic Convention in Chicago cast 329 votes for him for Vice President. But his claim to be remembered was that, despite his difficulties and his times, the House under him remained a place to test but not to forfeit the democratic faith...
...Nobody can pay a forfeit to escape the draft, pay a substitute to serve for him, or buy his way out once he is in service. Nor can the U. S. offer special bounties to any conscript or volunteer. Reason: the Army's doleful experiences with bounties, substitutes, and attendant corruption in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars...
...commission's new version of the marriage canon still forbids Episcopalian marriage for divorced persons, still provides that anyone remarried by a civil ceremony "shall forfeit his or her status as a Communicant." The new feature is a provision that "he or she may apply to any Minister of the Church . . . for the restoration of such status and for a blessing upon their union. The Minister . . . shall then lay the petition and his findings be fore the Bishop. . . . In case of a favorable judgment, the Minister in his discretion may bless the parties to the union, using such parts...