Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transfer to the Department of Justice of the functions now lodged in the Prohibition unit in the Treasury. . . . Control of industrial alcohol and legalized beverages should remain in the Treasury. Provision should be made for relief of congestion in the Federal Courts. . . . There should be a codification of the laws relating to Prohibition. ... I would add to these recommendations the desirability of reorganizing the various services engaged in the prevention of smuggling into one Border Patrol under the Coast Guard. ... It is not to be expected that any criminal law will ever be fully enforced as long as criminals exist...
...Law Enforcement. "It is the most serious issue before our people. . . . I have appointed a commission. . . . I am confident it will make a notable contribution." Major Hoover commissions now functioning?6; new Hoover commissions called for in his message?...
...Sherman Act forbade conspiracy in restraint of trade and commerce or monopolization of any part of trade or commerce. Though the law was aimed at large corporations, an attempt was made to apply it as an anti-Labor measure by arguing that a labor union was a conspiracy in restraint of trade. The Clayton Act (1914) restated and explained the Sherman Act and specifically declared that the labor of a human being was not a commodity and that labor unions were not trade-restraining conspiracies...
...Swedish Alfred Bernhard Nobel's posthumous Prize-giving began in 1901. Emil von Behring (1854-1917), German, won the first Prize in Medicine for his discovery that the serum of an immunized person will confer immunity against the same disease on another into whom it is injected (Behring's Law...
...Laval University and for over 50 years an immense power in the life of the province. Premier Louis, cardinal's nephew, was destined from the first for a public career. Premier since 1920, he it was who framed the widely discussed, widely imitated (by other Canadian provinces) Quebec liquor law. Though he thinks and speaks habitually in French, his English is forceful and fluent. After the first conference between paperman and premiers, President Graustein spoke to reporters...