Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McCormick described the Minnesota law as "tyrannical, despotic, un-American and offensive," declared that it would place the press in a position where it could be silenced by any corrupt administration. Hitherto the courts have had power to punish libelous publications, but this law gives them power to prevent publications entirely. What is more it enables a whole file of a paper, extending over a period of three months or more, to be placed in evidence, and permits stopping publication entirely unless the publisher can prove every statement that has appeared in all that time?a thing practically impossible...
Gravely to his fellow publishers Col. McCormick declared: "The possibility that such a law could legally be adopted and enforced would cause newspaper properties everywhere to be of small or doubtful value...
...have profaned the House of God. outraged the decencies of nature and broken the law of man," cried Sir Ernest Wild, K. C., Recorder of London, at Old Bailey court, last week. After elaborating these thoughts for some minutes he sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, for perjury in swearing falsely to her marriage declaration, famed "Captain Barker, D. S. O.," the transvestite, Mrs. Lilias Irma Valerie Barker Arkell-Smith, who for five years masqueraded successfully as a male War hero, who eloped with and married Miss Alfreda Howard, a chemist's simple daughter (TIME, March...
...passage of the New York state gasoline tax (2? per gallon, effective May 1) completed the role of 48 U. S. gas-taxing states. But the private car uses about 550 gallons of gasoline a year. The taxi uses about 7,565 gallons. Inasmuch as the New York law makes no distinction between gas taxes for taxicabs and for private cars, the taxi men, with 3% of New York City automobiles will...
Forty-seven years ago in Oranienbaum, near St. Petersburg, little Igor Stravinsky was born, son of an opera singer. He was a child of terrifying musical precocity and an early tendency towards hair-splitting conversation. The law first attracted him and he attended the University. Then, aged 20. he met a wise old man, Rimsky-Korsakov, one of the great five who had founded the Russian National School of Music. Rimsky, steeped in the folklore of his country, taught the youth to put his ear to the ground, to listen to the earth sounds of Muscovy...