Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven men and one woman deliberated for three hours and 23 minutes, then brought in their verdict: Defendant Prichard was guilty of conspiracy to forge and vote illegal ballots; his law partner, also accused with him, was found not guilty. Judge H. Church Ford sentenced Ed Prichard to two years in federal penitentiary...
...riots." "Let no one doubt," the minister went on, "that today anyone who . . . tries in any way to carry out the Vatican's orders commits treason against the vital principles of his own state and people." Cepicka lists himself officially as a Catholic. He is a son-in-law of Communist Boss Klement Gottwald...
Said Mayor Méric: "For the moment we are law-abiding Frenchmen. Of course we are against war. If France goes to war and we decide we won't go to war, it's the decision of the whole village. What are they going to do? Put the whole village in jail? And what if the next village and the one after that, and so on, decide...
...months, Buenos Aires intellectuals have been hearing rumors of-and holding heated arguments over-a new brain wave of the Perón government: a "draft law of the intellectual worker." Although the bill was submitted to Education Minister Oscar Ivanissevich last September, few of the debaters knew exactly what they were arguing about; the bill's provisions have never been officially disclosed...
Opponents cried that "the bill will let loose in our schools a reign of repression and fear." Undismayed, New York's legislature last April passed the Feinberg law, barring members of subversive groups from teaching. The State Board of Regents, which governs the public school system, was charged with enforcement...