Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relief fund. In quake areas a curfew bell was rung at 9 p. m., and persons seen prowling near shattered buildings after that hour were presumed to be thieves and fired upon at sight by military sentries. Profiteering in food or building materials was checked by a special law providing that offenders should have their entire property confiscated and should receive publicly 25 lashes...
Meanwhile, young McCormick was studying law, dabbling in politics, getting married, emerging from the War a colonel...
...Manhattan, one Ralph Richards was accused of visiting illegal saloons, posing as a prohibition enforcement officer and extracting large bribes from the proprietors. When, after being twice arrested for this practice, he was held without bail, Ralph Richards made a proposal to law authorities. He would aid detectives to find the whereabouts of an alleged "gang" which had assisted him in his operations...
Resigned. John Bassett Moore, 67, as U. S. judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice of the League of Nations, at Geneva; to complete 42 years' work on a 75-volume treatise on international law...
Left alone in the U. S. was the third stockholder of the Ford Motor Co., President Edsel Ford; reporters could not reach him to ask explanatory questions about the company's annual financial statement published last fortnight, as law requires, in Boston...