Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tousle-headed John Martin Costello, 36. † Last month the New York Legislature (Republicans) made a lump cut of $30,000,000 (about 10%) applicable throughout the Budget submitted by Governor Lehman, who last week, on the advice of his Attorney General, decided to let the measure become law, test its constitutionality in court...
...helping U. S. Attorney John T. Cahill catch other rich practitioners of the smuggling game at which he specialized was Albert Chapereau (Shapiro), who last week was sentenced to two years in jail for masterminding the crookery that got Radio Star Jack Benny and Comedian George Burns into the law's toils (TIME, April 17). Last week Attorney Cahill sent to Governor Lehman information tending to show that Judge Edgar Lauer knew plenty about his wife's smuggling. Four days later Judge Lauer resigned...
...however, the Prime Minister has soft-pedaled appeasement, and the German press has vilified the man once pictured as Germany's friend. Last week German Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, watchdog of the Reich's reading and photographic matter, outlawed the post cards under a Nazi law for the "protection of national symbols...
...Conference secretary was a Southerner-Rev. Dr. Lud H. Estes of Memphis. Booming out a point of law, Dr. Estes forgot himself, said: "As the old nigger says, 'I don't want to seem to be persnickety, but. . . .' " He stopped short. Two Negro delegates-one of them Florida Educator Mary McLeod Bethune-started for the platform to demand an explanation. Blushing, Dr. Estes seized a microphone, said: "Coming from the Deep South as I do, perhaps I am prone to use such words without realizing that they may give affront. I will say to the Conference: when...
...Passage of a request (not a law) that Methodist ministers refrain from smoking and chewing tobacco...