Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name had hardly entered the speculation this time. Battle Cry. A son of poor parents, Shay Minton was born 58 years ago in the southern Indiana hill country called the "Knob" district, went to work when he was eight years old. He put himself through Indiana and Yale law schools at the top of his classes, settled in New Albany, Ind. to practice law and enter politics. He was licked twice trying to get into the House of Representatives, but he rode into the Senate in the somber days of 1934 with a straight New Deal platform and a vote...
...Law." The whole dustup was hardly calculated to win much sympathy for the rebellious Navy. When the House Armed Services Committee re-opened its investigation of the B-36, Navymen would get their chance to make their case against the Air Force theories of strategic bombing. But there was not much point in blaming the unification law for their troubles. "It's like shouting out against the abolition of slavery," one vice admiral admitted. "Hell, it's the law of the land...
...jailing of Winter was touched off by his flat refusal to tell whether or not his father-in-law had attended the party's 1945 national convention. It was the climax of eight days of hairsplitting evasion during which Winter's memory wavered, as his fancy suited, from a complete blank to total recall...
...least embarrassed by these revelations, Mike set out to demonstrate his zeal for law enforcement, began raiding gambling joints, breaking up slot machines and punchboards. He even raided a law enforcement officers' club called the "Footprinters" and fired one of his deputies, one Ard Pratt (a nephew of the former sheriff), for being there. But Mike soon took Ard back and became so pally with him that the two became known as Ard and Lard. He also lost his zeal for knocking over slot machines...
...Victorian era's high noon, most businessmen were warmed by the belief that the biggest rewards would automatically go, by economic law, to the producer of the best and cheapest product. It was mainly patent medicinemen who "took advertising" regularly. In 1888, there were only two men in New York who admitted to being professional writers of advertising; one of them resided in a Bowery hotel, at 25? a night...