Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your review of Isaac Deutscher's Stalin: A Political Biography [TIME, Oct. 10], you mention that Stalin in Siberian exile under the Czar received food parcels and picture postcards from his mother-in-law. Can you tell me whether Siberian exiles under Stalin are permitted to receive such gifts from the folks back home...
...national minimum wage was raised from 40? to 75? an hour last week. The bill signed into law by the President will give an estimated 1,500,000 workers a raise of around $300 million a year. Harry Truman called it "a major victory in our fight to promote the general welfare," and said it "should result in the virtual elimination of the evil of child labor...
With a quick squiggle of his pen, President Truman last week signed a law calculated to please both U.S. tourists and the foreign merchants who load them down with perfumes, silks, tweeds, genuine shrunken heads, and other souvenirs. From now on, Americans who go abroad on trips of twelve days or longer can bring in $500 in goods duty free (the old limit was $400). The exemption on shorter trips goes up from...
...Law School will play host to 15 German legal experts over the weekend, as part of a program to familiarize the visitors with the workings of the American legal system...
Fresh from a junket at Yale, where they asked their hosts why so many students were "white shoes and striped ties," the group will arrive as South Station this afternoon at 2:25 and be met by a Boston Bar Association headed by Professor George K. Gardner of the Law School...