Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus Signor Benito Mussolini is placed in a position to absolutely dominate the Chamber by indirect appointive means. Other features of the law include: 1) Reduction of the number of deputies from 535 to 400; 2) The Grand Council to draw the nominees which it approves for candidacy from panels submitted by exclusively Fascist organizations, such as the 13 "corporations" which represent all Fascist agricultural, industrial and employer groups; 3) Suffrage to be accorded to celibate citizens over 21 or to married citizens over 18, provided that they pay certain taxes or are of the recognized clergy or are state...
...itself a majority, Premier Baron Tanaka professed and was generally conceded the ability to obtain the few minority votes which he needs to carry on, according to the official returns. The great facts are two: 1) This was the first Japanese election under the new suffrage law which increased the number of the electorate from 3,000,000 to some 12,000,000; 2) Of this new electorate 81% went to the polls and returned only two predominating parties...
...revivalist preacher was fixed with a nice choice of loyalties; he chose to respect the law rather than the sanctity of the confession which he had received and last week Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin went on trial in the village of Wentworth for having killed her father. The courtroom was filled with reporters from Southern papers (Northern newssheets neglected the story) and with the inhabitants of the countryside who felt a strange unreality in the proceedings, as if they had suddenly stopped being real people and had become instead the actors in a play. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue told...
Have we had the law long enough for a fair trial...
...Rosalind, Wintersmoon was merely the depths of Wiltshire: old house half shut up, woods, ponds, peacocks, Salisbury Plain in the distance. So Janet lost Rosalind; and all that remained was a great emptiness. She could indeed have filled it with the traditional affairs of her mother-in-law the duchess-soup kitchens, canons, Agatha Bazaar-but much as she loved tradition, she was too modern for that kind of thing. So she fell miserably in love with her husband, although all he had asked, and still asked, of her was that she bear him companionship-and an heir. This...