Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burned it (in the Capitol) in 1814, the collection has grown to some 6,000,000 volumes and pamphlets,* 1,500,000 maps and views, 1,200,000 pieces and volumes of music, 550,000 prints, 100,000 bound volumes of newspapers, uncountable manuscripts. In it is deposited by law a copy of every publication copyrighted in the U. S. With its Archives annex (completed last year), it contains 1,563,189 square feet of floor space (36.88 acres), 414 miles of steel shelving. It catalogues the important holdings of more than 700 other U. S. libraries, has published about...
Homer Stille Cummings is still in Washington, practicing law privately. Harvey Bailey, "Machine Gun" Kelly, Harmon Waley and numerous other bottomnotchers are still in Alcatraz, where he put them. "Scarface Al" Capone, whose transfer from Atlanta Mr. Cummings personally supervised from a top floor of San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel in 1934, got transferred out last winter, crazed as much by paresis as by confinement. Of Frank Murphy's view of Alcatraz, Homer Cummings did not think much. Said he: "Those babies wouldn't stay in a prison farm very long...
Whatever the truth, the Nazi machine went into action in Kladno in a big way. Next day virtual martial law was clamped down. Doors and windows of all houses had to be closed between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. Theatres, schools and public halls were closed. The Czech police were mustered in the public square, stripped of their arms and imprisoned for "nonfulfillment of duty." Later they were released and sent to other parts of the country. Heavily armed German patrols roamed the streets with orders to fire^at open windows. Day later, 2,000 reinforcements with machine guns, armored...
Basis of the St. Louis tragedy was a Cuban decree of May 5, requiring authorization from the Departments of State, Labor and the Treasury in addition to visas and landing permits. The Hamburg-American Line, according to the Cubans, was informed of this change in the immigration law before the St. Louis sailed for Havana, but chose to gamble on the chance that once the Jews were planted on Cuba's doorstep, formalities would be waived...
...Board could not cut teachers' salaries because they are fixed by State law...