Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kentucky law limits her Governors to one term. When Federal Judge Charles H. Moorman died this year, a way was seen for "Happy" Chandler to go up to the U. S. Senate without fighting Alben Barkley for his seat. Who approached whom with the idea of giving Senator Logan the judgeship to make way for Happy is a matter of dispute. Friends of Senator Barkley, who has ambitions to be President, say he killed the idea, lest his path to the White House seem to have an unworthy detour in it. Franklin Roosevelt asked Happy to be a good...
...Kentucky Hotel. A country belle from Breckenridge County, she got into politics via a typing job at Alben Barkley's headquarters when he ran for Governor in 1923. She runs the office of the Jefferson County Democratic executive committee. Mickey Brennan handles the people. Lawyer Miller watches the law. They were careful to get all the Barkley men they could on the Chandler-dominated election boards this year. Boss Brennan says: "Conservatively, Barkley will win by 60,000." "Miz Lennie" says...
...most momentous test case in the history of the English law covering abortion packed London's grimy Old Bailey courtroom last week with skilled physicians from Harley and Wimpole Streets, earnest young medical students, smart socialites. Defendant in the case, charged with performing an abortion on a 14-year-old girl who was seven weeks with child, was a lean, greying, studious man, Dr. Aleck William Bourne, 52, top-flight gynecologist and obstetrician...
England's law permits operations only when necessary to save the life of the mother, and yacht-loving Dr. Bourne, who two years ago prepared a weighty report on abortions for the British Medical Association, has long wished to broaden the law so as to allow reputable surgeons to use their own discretion in terminating pregnancies in special cases. A large share of British medical opinion agreed that a test case should be made to bring the law before the courts. Two-and-a-half months ago the perfect test case appeared...
...third sentenced to 22 months in prison. Learning that the girl was with child, Dr. Bourne decided that the age of the victim, whose name by agreement was left undisclosed last week, and the nature of the attack offered better than ordinary grounds for exhibiting the limitations of the law. Accordingly, with the consent of the girl's parents, he performed the operation seven weeks ago, then asked Scotland Yard to arrest...