Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ryuichi Yoshikawa, a 27-year-old painter in Osaka, begged his parents and older brother to let him marry a geisha girl. They refused. That night, while the family slept, Ryuichi got a heavy knife and methodically chopped off the heads of his father, mother, sister, brother, sister-in-law, six-year-old nephew and three-year-old niece...
Another impediment is the law of property in corpses. They belong to the next of kin or friendship. When Dr. Green applied to San Francisco's Health Commissioner Jacob Casson Geiger and Coroner Thomas Byers Woods Leland for cooperation, they reminded him that peeling a cornea from a body was precisely like performing an autopsy: it requires written permission of the corpse's owners...
...chief accomplishment of Louis Dembitz Brandeis before his appointment to the U. S. Supreme Court was to get the Massachusetts Legislature to pass a law allowing savings banks to issue life insurance. That was in 1907. Despite the tight-lipped opposition of all the old-line insurance companies, the plan was a thoroughpaced success. There are now 24 Massachusetts savings banks with life insurance departments, 117 more that act as agents. Massachusetts citizens can insure their lives for anything between $100 and $24,000. At the end of 1937 some 160,000 Massachusetts citizens or onetime Massachusetts citizens had policies...
...That, however, was not so surprising as that no big old-line insurance company protested with much enthusiasm when New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman began last January to persuade his Legislature to allow New York's savings banks to issue life insurance. When the Massachusetts law was passed the companies were still slightly groggy from the 1906 investigation by the Charles Evans Hughes Committee and they said little. But whenever the subject came up in other States they said plenty. In New York, however, opposition came chiefly from the New York State Association of Life Underwriters...
...York law as passed last week provides that no bank can issue more than $1,000 insurance to one person and no life can be insured in the savings banks for more than $3,000. So insurance will be confined largely to the small industrial policies which the companies consider profitable but a perennial nuisance. Industrial insurance has attracted criticism out of all proportion to its size. In fact, an investigation of the insurance business is pending in Albany. Insurance companies will probably not be sorry to lose some of their industrial insurance business. Meanwhile, only a handful...