Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, with Hungary under martial law and the Premier's racial bills facing probable defeat, Dr. Imredy was forced to admit that he had made an embarrassing and belated discovery. A deeper search into genealogical records had uncovered the unfortunate fact that his maternal great-grandfather had been born a Jew and that he himself was thus one-eighth Jewish. After some necessary promptings by old Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, Dr. Imredy resigned in a mood of self-immolation. Said he: "I held, and still hold, that legislation for the regulation of Jewish participation in the economic...
Crown Prince Reza is the favorite of the Shah's eleven children. When Son Reza decided to marry an Egyptian an Iranian law, requiring that the heir to the throne marry an Iranian, stood in his way. The Shah soon took care of that. A special measure was passed making Princess Fawziya a citizen of Iran...
...cold the baby catches because he has to sleep in the dining room; the disaster caused when a maid-of-all-work leaves in the midst of a dinner party; the results of John Mason's request for a raise; difficulties between Jane and her mother-in-law; a New Year's Eve quarrel between John and Jane. The climax, such as it is, arrives when their infant son wrinkles his face with boredom and refuses to say Daddy. At this point John and Jane Mason have ceased to be merely important and become two of the most...
...fowl made up of all factions in the conservation movement. Since then the Pittman-Robertson Act has set aside the 10% excise tax on sporting arms & ammunition for wildlife propagation and research. Hunters and animal-lovers, unified at last, have pushed through many a national and State fish-&-game law. Last week, when the fourth annual North American Wildlife Conference opened in Detroit, the Federation was going strong...
...York Life, Alfred E. Smith solicited fuel oil contracts for certain of its properties; 2) Mutual Life's deposit at Bankers Trust Co. jumped from $150,000 to $1,500,000 when Bankers Trust's President S. Sloan Colt became a director; 3) the Chicago law firm of Mitchell D. Follansbee, director of Metropolitan Life, has received $334,000 in fees from the Metropolitan since...