Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Lord Perth, the British Ambassador in Rome, was conferring almost daily last week on the most amicable terms with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, II Duce's son-in-law, and since at Moscow the Stalin regime chose last week not to make counter threats which might have given Italy and Germany pause, the dominant factor in Spain's civil war was not to be found this week in Aragon, in Catalonia or in Valencia, but in France. The army, navy and air force of the French Republic are among the most powerful in Europe...
...cannot become the universal policeman and patrol all the back streets of Europe and Asia. ... It is all very well to talk about the brotherhood of man, sanctity of treaties, rights of minorities and the rule of law. . . . Let us realize that our power to deal with the world as it is and the realists who inhabit it is not unlimited...
After finishing Fools for Scandal, Producer LeRoy, a son-in-law of Triumvir Harry M. Warner, left the family plot for a production berth at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, safe from barbed thrusts about nepotism. Sawed-off, narrow-eyed, cigar-waving Producer LeRoy is still hailed, at 37, as the Boy Wonder. At five he fell three stories in the San Francisco earthquake, landed unhurt on a mattress. At nine, engaged at $2.50 a week in a stage production of Barbara Frietchie to watch for the Rebels from a prop tree, he fell out of the tree, got a raise because...
...Chicago has 9,331 taverns (the word "bar" is prohibited by law), one for every 388 inhabitants; of 3,000 taverns sampled, nine out of ten violated various laws, 392 provided indecent dancing exhibitions, 113 prostitution...
...Tests made six months afterwards showed, however, that much of its effect was unimpaired. A method of "incidental learning" proved, however, to be more effective than propaganda. Pupils in Catholic parochial schools, who had a system of self-government, proved to be more stern toward violators of the law than those...