Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what the flower shops, the candy stores, the telegraph companies have done with her idea, she is disgusted. She has even incorporated Mother's Day to help keep unscrupulous florists and confectioners from using her patented trademark for commercial purposes. But "nobody," she says, "pays any attention to law any more...
Short of high treason, the gravest form of breach of the peace known to British law is riot, a statutory offense and an indictable misdemeanor. In Jamaica last fortnight black natives employed on British plantations at 50? per day made efforts to obtain $1 per day such as to lay them open to the charge of riot...
...industry "for the public convenience, interest or necessity." Thus was established the principle that private ownership and operation of a radio station is a Government granted privilege and the FRC (from which in 1934 the Federal Communications Commission inherited its powers) became the dispenser of the privilege. The law now allows maximum three year licenses. The Commission makes them subject to a renewal petition by the broadcaster every six months. Last year, with Republican Senator White of Maine and others baying that a sharp political odor was arising from the FCC, President Roosevelt-to whom radio means a lot-sent...
Last Day. Although Haile Selassie was girding in London to make his last stand at Geneva this week, his son-in-law Ras Gugsa traveled obediently in the entourage of Conquerors Vittorio Emanuele & Mussolini as they took Dictator Hitler out on the last day of his Rome visit for the big bombing & shelling...
...band was set aside. This solution was only temporary. Stations grew steadily in number and power until all wave lengths were occupied. The Department of Commerce thereupon declined to issue any more licenses. A 1926 Federal court decision threw the whole situation into chaos again by ruling that the law did not authorize Secretary Hoover to make individual wave length assignments, that stations were free to pick their own wave lengths, to wander at will through the frequencies. More than 200 stations jumped into the air in less than a year, mingled their random signals with the howls of heterodynes...