Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that coolies understood and relished. Creeping past Japanese sentries on a quiet Sunday, 100 guerrillas raided the Japanese-owned Bank of Taiwan, bayoneted three guards, smashed open the safes, grabbed $260,000 in notes, $90,000 in silver coins, escaped with a 20-minute lead. Baffled Japanese clamped martial law on the city that night, lifted it again before daybreak...
Although the U. S. Constitution guarantees freedom of the press against statutory attack, there is only one Federal law which guarantees it against attack by individuals. This is Title 18, Section 51 of the U. S. Code, directed against persons who "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution. . . ." Passed in 1870 as a weapon against the KuKluxKlan, Section 51 has since been used occasionally in cases involving intimidation of witnesses or voters, such as last year's Kansas City vote...
...Barbara Stanwyck, born Ruby Stevens in Brooklyn 31 years ago, divorced three years ago from waggish Frank Fay, is a man's woman who is best in roles like the saucy Irish engineer's daughter she plays in Union Pacific. Filed three days in advance, as California law requires, the names of S. Arlington Brugh and Ruby Stevens attracted no notice. The nervous bridegroom about to break millions of feminine hearts kept a nervous justice of the peace up until 12130 a. m. in order not to be married on the 13th of the month...
...York, where there are five race tracks, betting on horse races has been illegal since 1908, but bookmakers for the past five years have been permitted to operate at the tracks through a loophole in the law. Although most New York racing fans consider pari-mutuels* (which have been legalized in 18 States) a fairer system of betting, a small but powerful lobby in Albany has for five years influenced legislators against replacing book betting with pari-mutuel machines...
...year ago New York's law makers, enviously noting that California collects some $2,000,000 a year from the 4% tax on the pari-mutuel handle at its race tracks, finally turned a deaf ear to lobbyists, passed (33-To-14 in the Senate, 110-to-36 in the Assembly) a resolution for a constitutional amendment to legalize pari-mutuel betting. Under New York law, however, it had to be passed by two successive Legislatures before it could be submitted to the voters for referendum...