Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signatures, was blocked by the Council on trivial technical ground. Mr. McNamara, president of the body, declared that Cambridge "was not going to be turned into a laboratory of guinea pigs for a lot of theorists" and sat down on his political haunches. Even when the ballot law commission certified the petition of Saturday, Mr. McNamara refused to call a special meeting because of an "interfering" ordinance. Mayor Lyons also did his part: to Dean Landis's plea that he call a meeting, as chief executive, he answered that he was "on his way to Maine." Finally, prodded...
Sirs: The melancholy happenings of the last week give point to the old saying, "self-preservation is the first law of nature." Since our statesmen may be as confused as those of other democratic powers may I appeal to you to bring the following seven-point defense program to their attention...
Jehovah's Witnesses are not a sect or cult. They are true followers of Christ Jesus, and " are engaged in preaching the gospel of God's Kingdom under Christ (Matthew 24:14). They do not "engage in periodic spats with the law because its members like to peddle anticlerical pamphlets." . . . Jehovah's Witnesses are putting forth their best endeavors to aid the people to gain a knowledge of what is contained in the Bible. This is done in part by the publication and distribution of books which ... do not contain the words of a self-constituted "Prophet...
...Dewey, born in Owosso, Mich, and schooled at the University of Michigan, intended to cultivate his voice when he migrated to Manhattan 15 years ago Instead, he worked his way through Columbia School of Law by singing in churches. At Saratoga, the ringing baritone which was to have embellished the concert stage clarioned, in tones which rivaled the radio Roosevelt, a challenge as carefully prepared as any legal brief. He expanded his character as a scourger of city lawbreakers into that of a State champion against "the biggest racket of them all ... politics for profit...
...reported last month that the Department of Justice would not go to bat for Socialist Norman Thomas in his complaint under the Lindbergh Law (on kidnapping) against Boss Hague and the police of Jersey City who bum's-rushed him aboard a Manhattan-bound ferryboat when he tried to speak for civil liberties last spring. Such a storm of indignation rose from Liberals that the Department quickly disclaimed the report, said it was still studying the Thomas case. Last week Attorney General Cummings announced that evidence collected by G-Men would be placed before the Federal Grand Jury...