Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crime. This the district attorney refused to guarantee, pointing out that doctors have the indisputable right to perform an abortion to preserve the life or health of a prospective mother. But Dr. Jaffa would take no chances. He and the district attorney threw the case into the reluctant lap of Denver's Juvenile Judge Stanley H. Johnson. Judge Johnson discreetly hired two impeccable Denver physicians to advise him. Last week Judge Johnson's medical advisers told him that the child, by now in the sixth month of pregnancy, was physically able to proceed with her involuntary motherhood. Social...
...Soon thereafter the Patenôtres went abroad to live. Raymond grew up a Frenchman. Mme Patenôtre who has visited the U. S. about ten times in 30 years, had little interest in the Philadelphia Inquirer when her brother's will dumped it into her lap. Gladly she sold her 51% to the late Cyrus H. K. Curtis and his step-son-in-law John C. Martin in 1930. Presumably the sale involved some cash and a series of notes which the new owners expected to pay off out of profits...
...unemployment relief New York currently needs $50,000,000. Mayor LaGuardia proposed a stiff tax on business. This raised such a whirlwind of opposition that he dumped the question in the lap of the Municipal Assembly, forced it to act quickly by cutting off all relief payments for four days. Last week the Assembly voted three taxes which needed only the Mayor's signature for enactment. First was a 1/10% tax on gross business receipts above $15,000 a year. Second was a tax of 15% on amounts paid in Federal income taxes. Third was a euphemism for "lottery...
...parted still good friends, he shock hands with an emphasis that shot your correspondents heart right into her lap. Ah, those men from the Lampoon...
...Ponts six weeks ago he was promised absolute editorial authority. One of the officers of the publishing company even put it in writing. Last week Editor Mapel met the first test of his independence when the biggest kind of local story for Wilmington broke into his lap. It concerned, of all people, Bill Mapel's bosses, the du Ponts, who were appearing before the Senate committee investigating the munitions industry...