Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Myron Weiss, Associate Editor of TIME; to Luba Wies, Boston law student; by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; in Manhattan...
...nation. That welfare he fostered by an impressive array of reforms-most of them in the face of impassioned opposition: Catholic Emancipation in Ireland; establishment of constabulary forces-the London Bobbie (or Peeler) by tradition is nicknamed in his honor; wise factory legislation; reorganization of taxation, currency, criminal law; development of a new liberal Conservative party out of the reactionary Tories; and finally, drastic Free Trade measures which initiated the vast expansion of British trade...
...Miss Ramsay's hands a prosaic Corn Law becomes a matter of fiery drama, and the most eventful period of British parliamentary history becomes the most exciting; Her lucid analysis of the political situation sets the stage, her vivid incidental sketches of "Dis," Lord Pam, Victoria, people it. Impartial, she creates Peel with all his faults of temper, tactlessness and lack of humor, but sets him centre stage in all his grandeur as England's greatest Premier...
...there to await execution, notions began slowly to revolve inside her head. She had been convicted of murdering her husband, because he, lying on his deathbed, had signed a document asserting that she (his Christian wife) had slain him. What possibility was there then that she could escape the law's severest penalty? Her husband was an atheist, remembered Mrs. Marshall; false-swearing by an atheist, even on a deathbed, promises no future punishment. An atheist is therefore considered more likely to be a liar than a man who believes in God. In two states, Arkansas and Maryland, there...
Should such an appeal be made successfully, it would become impossible for U. S. atheists to expect justice at the hand of the law. It would be theoretically permissible to bait atheists in the streets, to revile or cast filth upon them, to slaughter them in shambles, all with impunity. Such a condition would not be welcomed by U. S. atheists; hence it became their interest to see that Mrs. Emma Marshall failed in her appeal. Charles Smith, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, telegraphed to Attorney General Charles McCall of Alabama, asking permission to have...