Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white ticket is calculated to insure the Democrats against the dangers of sloth, carelessness, disaffection among themselves. The new Texas method of disfranchising Negroes by simple race discrimination in the party membership supersedes early, cruder. methods. Texas used to bar Negroes from the polls by a State law. But Negroes had this law declared unconstitutional. Other methods have been...
...Bright, N. J., one evening last week, a village policeman spied seven nude girls bathing in the Atlantic Ocean. He cried out at them. One of them retorted: "Go look at the law, will ya?" He did. The law specifically prohibited nude bathing from 6 a. m. to 9 p. m. It was after...
...Bright's councilmen soon summoned, amended the law...
...nuisance. The citizen's relief is great when he finds that he has not been arrested, that the ticket is merely an admission to the next policemen's ball or euchre-fest or field day. The citizen now exhibits his nonchalance in the presence of the Law, also his good-fellowship and good-citizenship, by buying the ticket, or several tickets. Not infrequently the citizen caps his gesture by telling the officer to keep the tickets, pass 'em around to his friends and "kiddies." The policeman, if not an imbecile, soon peddles the same tickets over again...
...have been made during the last ten years. No Olympics are complete without a few preliminary squawks. Perhaps the reason is that, while the Olympics are supposed to be the essence of amateurism, there is always a suspicion that amateurism is being stretched to the outside limit of the law. Take the case of Charles Paddock, U. S. sprinter, whose amateur status and sportsmanship have long been questioned. The Sportsman, a magazine impeccable in taste, had damaging evidence against him (TIME, June, 11); a distinguished vice president of the American Olympic Committee resigned because of him; the British protested against...