Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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California law provides that each death sentence has automatic appeal to the Supreme Court before final judgement is made and date of execution set. At that time none on condemned row had gone through the Supreme Court. At date of this letter my appeal is still before the Court. In cases where the Supreme Court upholds conviction it usually is a matter of 3 to 4 months before actual execution takes place...
...communicated themselves to Washington so forcefully that President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull agreed the moment had come for another warning to Herr Hitler. Accordingly, Mr. Hull took to the air with a speech, short-waved to Europe, in which he elaborated his thesis of international "order under law." His sharpest point: "In a smaller and smaller world it will soon no longer be possible for some nations to choose and follow the way of force and for other nations at the same time to choose and follow the way of reason. All will have...
...months hence the Wages-&-Hours law, to rivet a floor (25? per hr.) and a ceiling (44 hr. per week) under and over U. S. Labor, will go into effect. To Washington last week to square off at administering that law went Elmer Frank ("Jap") Andrews, 48, the mild-mannered civil engineer whom Franklin Roosevelt called from his parallel post in New York State. Last week, Mr. Andrews marched into
Engaged. Sally Poor Clark, 18, nightclub singing sister-in-law of John Aspinwall Roosevelt; and George Xavier McLanahan, 25; in Nahant, Mass...
...workmen crazy. They visited sheiks, harems (a disappointment), native officials (most of them later assassinated), and the 24-year-old King of Iraq, a motoring enthusiast who had a Mercédès done in phosphorescent paint. Their collection of native lore ran to such curiosa as the law forbidding mermaids in the River Tigris (which ran through their yard) to marry human beings. They particularly liked Iraq love lore of the Arabian Nights sort...