Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nevada, which estimates the business brought in by its six-weeks-residence divorce law at a modest $5,000,000 per year, vigilant legislators laid away a 28-day law which they had prepared for instant passage in case Montana's legislation became law...
...bright boy at Princeton, the University of Virginia Law School or Washington & Lee was lanky Frank Joseph Hague Jr. After eight years of dawdling, he never did get a degree. In 1936 he managed to get admitted to the New Jersey bar. Last fortnight, events in the politically throttled State of New Jersey conspired to place Frank Hague Jr., 34, on that state's highest bench (Errors & Appeals) as a lay member at $9,000 a year. The events: 1) loaded with mortgages on properties from which high local taxes had driven business, a big Jersey City bank failed...
Last week Generalissimo Franco was reported from Paris as planning to become the non-political head of the State, naming his wife's reportedly pro-Nazi brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suńer, as the political head...
...mass of patriotic Poles had had to choose before the War between their Russian, German and Austrian masters, they would have undoubtedly chosen the Austrians. In Polish Austria, Poles had considerable autonomy. Poles were allowed to enter the Austrian Civil Service, had Polish schools and law courts. Under German rule few Poles held public jobs and under the Tsar many a Polish patriot (like Pilsudski) spent long, hard winters in Siberian exile...
...four-day U. S. itinerary of Great Britain's King & Queen next June, went Captain Alan Frederick Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), the King's assistant private secretary. Asked if he were related to Henry George Charles Lascelles, Lord Harewood (rhymes with Gar Wood), brother-in-law of the King, he answered yes. "How?" ''Quite legitimately...