Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wars, they could hardly be set to fighting until they had got in the grain. And since even modern mechanized armies still travel on their stomachs, no nation could well afford to risk losing its grain supply by attacking another nation during harvest. Though Nazis defied this law of Europe's military history by keeping close to 2,000,000 men under arms as the harvest began, few Believed even Germany would risk a crisis until September when its own essential crops...
Anti-Semitic Nazis, invoking their own version of the Mosaic law-a consul for a consul-last week countered Britain's expulsion of spyster German Consul General Reinhardt with a demand that England withdraw Consul General Donald St. Clair Gainer from Vienna. Charge against Consul General Gainer was also dabbling in espionage. Fumed a spokesman for the British Consul General: "Sheer nonsense seems a clear case of retaliation...
...crippled artist, persuaded Evelyn ("Evie") Robert-Washington Times-Herald columnist and wife of Lawrence ("Chip") Robert Jr., secretary of the Democratic National Committee-to let him paint her portrait from a photograph, then sued her for $750 when she rejected it as outrageous. Caught in the toils of the law, she last week settled out of court, then treated her portrait as she thought it deserved: kicked a hole through the face...
Married. Nina Barbara Raskob, 21, ninth of Financier John Jacob Raskob's 13 children; and Charles Wesley Lyon Jr., 23, University of Virginia Law School graduate; in Centreville, Md. Among the guests: New York's ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith...
Duke today has a sumptuously equipped medical school and a hospital (largest in the South) that has treated more than 110,000 patients, schools of religion, law (some of whose students ostentatiously study in log cabins), nursing, forestry and graduate studies, a college for women on a separate, Georgian campus. Tobacco, source of Duke's wealth, is not neglected: a laboratory conducts constant research in prevention of tobacco diseases, improvement of cigaret paper...