Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because he had no occasion to enter on the execution of his office before that time. In contending that Taylor did not become President until he took the oath, Mr. Britt stops himself from claiming that Atchison ever became President-because Atchison never took the oath. The presidential succession law did not apply to the situation on Sunday March 4. Under the law then in force, the president pro tem of the Senate (Mr. Atchison) was to succeed only in case of the removal, death, resignation, or inability of both the President and Vice President; inability, that is, "to discharge...
...strange, therefore, that Canada should have assumed an attitude apparently so unfriendly in regard to Volstead enforcement. The Canadian government, which once struggled to execute the prohibition law in its own country, now finds the American system of tremendous financial benefit. Furthermore, its decision to allow so powerful a neighbor to fight its own battles to a finish cannot be criticized on this side of the border. Only too often, this has been the method of procedure employed by the United States...
...there was anti-railroad legislation, for at the foot of the timetable is a notice. "At the request of Superintendent Alcohol, there will be a business meeting, by and by, of the stockholders and conductors of the road, to hear a report concerning liabilities under the Higher Law...
...tutors was the man after whom Downing Street, London, was named. George Downing had all his education in Harvard College; and as we find him, when representing Cromwell in France, carrying on a two-hour conversation in Latin with Cardinal Mazarin, we may infer that Dunster's College law of 1642, forbidding the use of the "mother tongue" even in conversation, was fairly well observed...
...fifth group of law courts receive their facts today. For these clubs, briefs are due on January 25 and the arguments will take place at 7.30 o'clock on February 1 at the places specified...