Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...documentary evidence gathered and reported by the Senate Investigating Com mittee was evidently considered sufficiently convincing by Congress for beginning with the Neutrality Law of 1936, there has been adopted a ban on loans and credits to nations at war. There has been no move whatsoever to eliminate that provision from any neutrality legislation since...
Contrary to the trend was a law which...
Died. Samuel Davis Wilson, 57, eight days after he resigned as Mayor of Philadelphia; of cerebral thrombosis and hypertension (high blood pressure); in Philadelphia. Hardworking, harddriving, hard-drinking, red-faced Sam Wilson had been an automobile manufacturer, Sunday blue-law spy, contractor, justice of the peace, crime investigator. Politically he was all things to all men. A violent Wilsonian Democrat (his oldest son-secretary is named Woodrow), in 1933 he was elected Philadelphia's Controller on a coalition ticket, next year supported Democrat George H. Earle for Governor of Pennsylvania, year after that was elected Mayor as a Republican...
...Netherlands' fast-driving Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, madcap son-in-law of Queen Wilhelmina, went a-racing across a lake in his speedboat, crashed smack into a small motorboat, sank it. Into the water jumped Prince Bernhard, pulled out a wet father, three wet little children. When Netherlands newspapers got wind of the episode they promptly printed nothing about it, instead plastered their front pages with the first pictures of Papa Bernhard's two-weeks-old second daughter, Irene...
Last fortnight, however, the Hobby Lobby got NBC into the law courts. It all stemmed from the preparations for the July 19 program. Someone at Young & Rubicam's, the ad agency producing the show, had heard about a printing executive in Philadelphia, name of Klein, whose hobby was hypnotism. Arrangements were made immediately: Hypnotist Howard Klein was going to hypnotize someone right in the studio. It seemed like a swell idea at the time. Mr. Klein, a great hand at house parties, was delighted. He sent little printed cards to a lot of his friends, telling them...