Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a division was finally. taken the "Rabbit bill" was found to have been defeated by two votes. It will, of course. become law over the heads of Their Lordships if passed three times by the House of Commons. Stupefied clerks of the House of Lords said, last week, that this was the first bill introduced by a Conservative Government to be defeated by Their Lordships in 80 years...
...Grand National Assembly at Angora (new Turkish Capital) rushed through a law whereby infants born in Turkey after Jan. 1, 1929 to foreign parents will be considered Turkish subjects. Probably never before has an Asiatic state dared to enact a law so distasteful to Occidental Motherhood...
...remembers her husband, the late King Constantine of Greece, he who guessed wrong in siding with his brother-in-law, Wilhelm II, during the War. No one would remember her second and favorite son, King Alexander of Greece, had he not died sensationally of a monkey bite. Today her eldest son, the deposed King George II of Greece, is a charming though impecunious guest at the Rumanian and British Courts, being especially favored by his royal & imperial second cousin once removed, George...
...Paul Koundouriotis, President of Greece, also a onetime co-revolutionist with Venizelos, dissolved Parliament and then signed a decree so altering the electoral law that the Venizelists, who would probably have won the next election, are now assured a sweeping victory. The decree provides among other things that no Jew may stand for election except on the "Jewish Ticket" which will have to be created for that purpose...
Died. Rufus Coif ax Phillips, 63, secretary of the American Rolling Mills Co., brother-in-law of famed President George M. Verity of the Mills; in Middletown, Ohio...