Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poland, in which there is latent antiSemitism, and anti-Jewish Germany last week had a "misunderstanding." It occurred over a Polish passport law, effective midnight October 29, requiring Polish citizens abroad to revalidate their passports or lose their citizenship. Germany, fearful that many of her estimated 55,000 Polish Jews would thus become virtual "citizens" of Germany, seized on the law as a pretext to get rid of them...
...fail to vote are black-listed as civic-duty dodgers and have to pay a 100-peso ($5) fine. Consequently, last week most of them turned out to vote in a typical South American election which picked a successor to stern, small-eyed President Arturo Alessandri Rodriguez, forbidden by law to succeed himself...
...these deeds were as nothing to his turning of the face of Turkey from East to West. The abolition of the veil, fez, the institution of polygamy meant the abandonment of the nation's Moslem past. The substitution of civil, criminal and commercial codes of law copied from Western models for the old sheria laws led to the abolition of special privileges for foreigners. The writing of a new language with a new alphabet made literacy a privilege of the masses rather than of priests and intellectuals. Turkey in 1938 is a westernized nation...
...board member of the Alliance-who for the past year and a half has been preaching to an average 5,500 people every Sunday in his "Church of the Healing Christ" in Manhattan's Hippodrome. A onetime British electrical engineer, New Thoughtist Fox believes in a universal Law to which anyone may tune his mind in "scientific prayer...
Judge Stacy and his co-members, Dean James M. Landis of Harvard Law School and onetime Economics Professor Harry A. Millis, said flatly that: 1) railroad wages are not high; 2) a horizontal wage cut would not meet the emergency since the savings would not go merely to the needy roads; 3) a wage cut would run counter to the present trend of U. S. wages; 4) the railroads' distress since October 1937 is still a short-term situation which the current improvement in business may correct; 5) therefore, the roads should drop the whole idea...