Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under this bill would cost taxpayers not $800,000,000 but $4,380,000,000 in the next 60 years. Showman Martin of Massachusetts stepped aside to let a freshman Democrat, handsome young (31) Albert Arnold Gore of Carthage, Tenn. deliver the coup de grace. Gore, who got his law degree from the Nashville Y.M.C.A., roared in his maiden House speech...
...knees, learned that bathing suits must carry knee-length skirts and have tops that reach the neck. Penalty for less bathing suit: $18 fine. Women cannot lie down on Spanish beaches, and men must wear tops as well as trunks. Last year Pugilist Paolino Uzcudun tried to beat the law by swimming in a dinner suit and top hat, was hauled off to court for making fun of the rules, released when he proved there was no law forbidding swimming in evening clothes...
Fresh out of Harvard Law School in 1902, William Woodward was introduced to racing at Ascot and Newmarket while working in London as secretary to U. S. Ambassador Joseph Choate. In 1910, on the death of his uncle, Banker James T. Woodward, young Bill inherited not only controlling interest in Manhattan's Hanover National Bank, but also the famed Belair Stud, a 3,000-acre farm at Collington, Prince Georges County, Md., close by the spot where his paternal ancestors first settled...
...name with the New Deal program. TVA's general counsel since 1937, able Jim Fly won TVA's two major tilts in the Supreme Court. A tall, quiet, hard-working Texan who graduated from Annapolis and spent three years in the Navy before loping through Harvard Law School in two years, Lawyer Fly is a New Dealer on power questions but no zealot, won the respect of many private utilitarians by his moderation and tact in TVA disputes. By naming new Chairman Fly practically on the eve of Congress' adjournment, Franklin Roosevelt did his best to insure...
...disrespect for the law has encouraged many a timid reporter. To interview a Japanese arriving on a ship, Smitty once raced the entire length of a dock with both horns of his car blasting the air, scattering police, dock guards, customs officers, longshoremen and the personal bodyguard of the Japanese. Finally he pulled up at the gangplank, jumped out and bowed to the Japanese, muttering and hissing...