Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they follow the Administrator's rulings and interpretations, pending court decisions on moot points. Employers now take Elmer Andrews' advice at their risk, chancing heavy damages, fines up to $10,000, even six months in jail if the courts disagree with the Administrator on what the law means...
...photographic establishments of Herr Professor Heinrich Hoffmann in Berlin, Munich and Vienna last week poured thousands of big & little pictures of big little Adolf Hitler, to adorn the walls of the new German subjects of Bohemia, Moravia and Memel. It is an unwritten law of Greater Germany that every household, office, factory and assembly room must show a picture of Der Führer, and Heinrich Hoffmann is Germany's official Reichsbildberichterstatter, or Photographic Reporter of the Reich...
...Federal grand jury last week ended three months of hearings by indicting nine men for criminal fraud in helping F. Donald Coster perpetrate his $18,000,000 swindle of McKesson & Robbins, Inc. The nine men were Coster-Musica's three brothers, two brothers-in-law, a vice president, two McKesson & Robbins directors and a shadowy character named Ben Simon who had known the inside story for 20 years and had lived on his knowledge...
Under the 1934 Silver-Purchase Law. designed ostensibly to broaden the monetary base, the U. S. Treasury has spent nearly $1,000,000,000 buying silver at the pegged prices (now 64? an ounce for domestic silver, 43? for foreign silver), a substantial subsidy which has stimulated silver production the world around, driven China off the silver standard. Author Leavens speculates on what would have happened if this law had never passed, concludes that silver miners would have had a hard time, that the price would have fallen sharply, but that eventually a new and satisfactory equilibrium would have been...
President Conant will lead the exodus from Cambridge which will include William H. Claflin Jr., Treasurer; George H. Chase, Dean of the University; James M. Landis, Dean of the Law School; Henry W. Holmes, Dean of the School of Education, George F. Plimpton, Associate Dean of the College; Dr. David M. Little, Secretary to the university, and other members of the faculty...