Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When politicians seek to legislate upwards and fix by law the prices of U. S. farm commodities, a man who wonders what price levels the politicians would recommend is Eugene Meyer Jr., the mentally mobile New York banker whom President Wilson called in in 1918 to direct War Finance Corp., whom President Harding called back in 1921, whom President Coolidge reappointed in 1925, and who last May was made chief of the reorganized Federal Farm Loan Bureau. In his inconspicuous office at Washington, he has received malcontents, and their political spokesmen, during three Administrations. His record of financial diplomacy...
...This defendant . . . knew the basic principles of law. She knew right from wrong. She cannot plead ignorance. There has been no appeal made for her because she is a woman...
...time, perhaps until Death came. . . . Promptly suspicious Greeks reasoned that so successful a maker of history as Eleutherios Venizelos might soon itch to do more than edit. They remembered that he brought Greece into the War on the side of the Allies, although Greek King Constantine was brother-in-law to All Highest Kaiser Wilhelm. At the Peace Conference it was in large measure due to the peculiar, enticing charm of M. Venizelos that the Allies were persuaded to increase the territory of Greece by 3,200 miles and extend her frontier westward to within 20 miles of Constantinople. Such...
Soon afterward, however, supple Eleutherios Venizelos slewed his Liberals around to support, for the time being, General John Metaxas, who promptly became Prime Minister, although he and his Royalist supporters are the antithesis of Venizelist republicanism, and seek the restoration of banished King George II of Greece (son-in-law of Marie of Rumania...
...When newsgatherers approached him, John Sumner enlarged upon his diatribe: "Sadism is a form of sexualism. This painting is very apt to arouse sadistic impulses. Also it is placed where children can see it. . . . If it were prosecutable, I think there should be prosecution and I feel that the law should be interpreted to cover such things...