Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Through the Treasury Department, the President assured U. S. miners that the Treasury will buy all silver mined by them up to midnight, December 31 (when the present law expires) even though it is offered to the Mint after that date...
...economic policies designed to improve the standard of living of its people. The issue is whether, in pursuing them, the property of American nationals may be taken by the Mexican Government without making prompt payment of just compensation to the owners in accordance with the universally recognized rules of law and equity...
Therefore Mr. Hull requested that Mexico arbitrate (under the multilateral Pan-American arbitration treaty of 1929): 1) the question whether it has complied with international law ("It is the considered judgment, however, of the United States that the Government of Mexico has not complied"); 2) the amounts and terms by which Mexico will make good. In short, for Washington no more...
Alben Barkley was a tobacco farmer's son, a field worker until he was old enough to go to Marvin College at Clinton. He later put himself through Emory College (Georgia) and the University of Virginia Law School. He got his first job in the law office of Paducah's Judge W. S. Bishop whom Paducah's Irvin Cobb immortalized as "Judge Priest." Slow of mind and body, but powerful and persistent, in his career from there up to Majority Leader he had only two lucky breaks: he voted to seat Franklin Roosevelt as a delegate...
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling was his theme song then, and they called him '"Irish." For one year he was in the S. A. T. C., on the strength of which he has been active ever since in the American Legion. He spent one term at Harvard Law School until his money ran out, finished his law course in 1924 at the University of Kentucky, taking 16 examinations in two days and getting record high marks. He coached athletics at Versailles High School and Centre College, also played summer professional baseball (pitcher) in Canada. He married pretty Mildred Watkins...