Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outgoing end of the U. S. budget system. Never a harmonious team, the Messrs. Dawes and McCarl took hold of the newborn budget and accounting system simultaneously in 1921.?Said General Dawes: "The Comptroller General . . . has thus far failed in carrying out the accounting purpose of our present law. We have in the U. S., therefore, only the old-fashioned and entirely inadequate cash accounting system...
...Guanajuato there are under arms servants of the Catholic Church, who, forgetting their Christian morality, dedicate themselves to acts of absolute banditry on the pretext of defending the doctrines of their Church. In contrast with that attitude there are other dignified representatives of Catholicism who counsel respect for law and authority...
...continent last fortnight from California?to join Mrs. Hearst in Manhattan, as he does at least once each year (wedding anniversary)?Mr. Hearst felt a public message stirring within him. President Hoover had just gone to Manhattan and addressed the Associated Press on the subject of crime and law enforcement (TIME, April 29). In the presidential reasoning, Publisher Hearst thought he detected flaws. Himself the holder of many an A. P. franchise, he proposed to tear apart and answer what President Hoover had said to the assembled editors and publishers...
...Hearst's views. . . . What we objected to was the reprinting of an article that gave the appearance of being an editorial written for the Star by Mr. Hearst. Also on account of the way in which it was used it indicated that the Star had changed its attitude on law enforcement...
...came arraignment of flask-toting, whiskey-smuggling Congressmen, of bribe-rotted enforcement officers; praise for the Spirit of Liberty. The Hoover logic was then trapped and chided. The President had ascribed "high moral instincts" to the People in one breath, and in the next had complained that respect for law was fading from their sensibilities. The President had complained of increased crime but had not perceived that the drastic Jones (Five & Ten) Act, by sending up liquor prices and making convictions fewer, would cause the liquor trade to finance the underworld more handsomely than ever...