Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approve by referendum. Last week Mr. Wallace's analysts announced the result: a cultivated acreage of 26,904,000, lower than any since the Department of Agriculture began to keep tabs in 1909, and a prospective crop of about 12,000,000 bales (unofficially indicated, because Federal law prohibits official bale forecasts before August...
...little Pole of Hamtramck, Mich, who, with an accomplice, shot two officers of the Midland (Mich.) Chemical State Savings Bank, killed a passing truck driver, was captured thanks to the marksmanship of a deer-hunting dentist. Taking life during a bank holdup calls for the death penalty under Federal law...
Franklin Roosevelt asked his Department of Justice to see what could be done to accommodate gentle, faithful Frank Murphy. Federal law says that Federal executions shall be moved only out of States which have entirely abolished capital punishment. Michigan law does demand death for "high treason." The Chebatoris hanging could not be moved unless the trial judge knew of a way. Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle of Detroit replied: "I have neither the power nor the inclination. ... I think it would be unfair to suggest that people of neighboring States are less humane than are the people...
From a front-page editorial in the Hearst Seattle Post-Intelligencer entitled HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN by Publisher John Boettiger, son-in-law of President Roosevelt...
...law set up an air authority of five members and an administrator at annual salaries of $12,000, and an air safety board of three at $7,500 annually, one of them to be an airline pilot. To the authority was entrusted control over mail subsidies, with authority to fix rates, determine routes on request and recommendation from the Post Office Department and designate carriers. The authority was also to set maximum passenger and freight rates as the I.C.C. does for rail and bus carriers, and enfranchise existing airlines with certificates of convenience and necessity, continuing all present mail contracts...