Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ministers, government officials, Deputies, Senators, and members of the royal family from dealing in any way with companies having or seeking contracts from the government. They would also be banned from getting involved in arbitration in any government case, and Deputies who were attorneys would be barred from practicing law during their term of office. The penalty for any violations: two to four years' solitary confinement...
Since an estimated 80% of the 136 Majlis members would be affected by the new law, Deputies had the choice of resigning their seats or giving up their cut. Their dilemma: if they resign, they will no longer have any value to the contractors, who hired them solely because of their chance to influence contracts...
...time to reassert himself. He flew back to Bangkok last week. Next day he dissolved the National Assembly, deposed the Premier, banned all political parties, scrapped the constitution and promised to draw up another (which will not be submitted to a referendum), padlocked a dozen publications, and declared martial law because of "pressure of internal and external forces, especially of the Communists." In the name of the "revolutionary party," Sarit promised Thailanders that he would 1) respect the power and independence of the courts, 2) adhere to all of Thailand's international obligations, especially SEATO. Sarit is reportedly quite...
...Regrettably," said Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, "the masses have shown a tendency of late to ignore the law...
...which 1) France gave Sweden the West Indian island of Saint-Barthélemy, 2) the King of Sweden gave Baron de Staël, who had rigged the gift, the plum post of Ambassador to Paris, 3) Banker Necker, who had refused to settle for a son-in-law below ambassadorial rank, gave daughter Germaine to Ambassador de Staël, along with a whopping dowry. As for Germaine, she wanted to cultivate "the intellectual and nervous exaltation" which was her notion of the perfect life. Her husband, she said, was too "correct, sterile, inert" to supply exaltation...