Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leader Sergio Osmena of the Philippine Senate, long an agitator for Island independence and an old-time opponent of "foreign" capital in the Philippines, applauded the Stimson document; said that the law changes suggested should not be difficult to effect. This was good news to such outreaching U. S. interests as the Firestones of Ohio (rubber) and doubtless Surveyor Hammond's Electric Bond & Share...
...Enforcement Provided. Secretary Kellogg explained: "As I have already pointed out, there can be no question as a matter of law that violation of a multilateral anti-war treaty through resort to war by one party thereto would automatically release the other parties from their obligations to the treaty-breaking State...
John D. Clark, president of Midwest Refining Co. of Denver, Col., director of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, vice president of Pan-American Eastern Petroleum Co., announced that he would desert his business to take a post graduate course at Johns Hopkins University in law and economic research in order to fit himself for a permanent position in the profession of teaching...
...affair reacted upon the Laurentano family in intricate fashion. The prince's vulgar bride eloped with the widower of the murdered lady-friend. Lando barely escaped the island where he had abetted the riots. Sicily was put under martial law, and the old Garibaldino Mauro, frenzied by the impertinence of upstart socialists, fared forth with his medals and pistols of 1860 to assist the state troopers. These unimaginative souls mistook him for a rioter, and shot him in a street fight...
...Then, a few days later, they said: "Let it run." It really did not make any difference, for the film is harmless, the public refused to become excited, there were no race riots. The story is laid in the year 1976 in the city of Vientra, where a law is passed ousting all the Jews. Troubles beset Vientra. Then the Jews are called back...