Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hasty bite, let out the House conferees for a brief separate meeting, then readmitted them. When the whole committee finally emerged, the conferees announced, with delighted beams, that after nearly six months of drafting, debate and conferences, Congress finally had a tax bill destined soon to become the law of the land...
...words that were inscribed in the bark of a tree at Camp Hill, Ala. by Claude Pepper in 1911. He was then ten years old. After nursing his ambition while working as a farm helper and in an Alabama steel mill, stoking furnaces at Alabama University, boning through Harvard Law School where he graduated in 1924 and starting a law practice in Perry, then in Tallahassee, Claude Pepper set out to realize his goal by running for election...
...into one ocean of German blood. He ended by defying openly for the first time the Czechoslovak statute which forbids the existence of a Nazi Party-it has hitherto existed in Czechoslovakia sub rosa, has not dared to use the swastika Nazi symbol. Daring the Government to enforce the law, Führer Henlein climaxed: "Naziism is the guiding principle of our Party, the same as it is for all Germans throughout the world! It is unbearable for us if, in the future, we are persecuted because of our confession of this faith...
...older generation from whom the young people of Triangle B refuse to profit. The facts that Lady Kitty (Grace George) ran off with Lord Porteous and that they turn up 30 years later to serve as Horrible Examples do not deter Lady Kitty's daughter-in-law (Tallulah Bankhead) from running off with Teddy Luton (John Emery...
...from the City Treasurer. When Treasurer William J. Shea wanted to know what it was all about, the students referred him to an old Massachusetts statute, passed in 1888. Treasurer Shea spent an hour hunting up the statute, found it, paid the $2. He also learned that the law required him to cut off and burn the seal's nose, as evidence a bounty had been paid. Descending to the basement, Shea carefully amputated the seal's nose, tossed it into the furnace. Then he billed the State for $2.50-$2 for the bounty, 50? for removing...