Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chiang Kai-shek, Generalissimo of the nominally democratic Nationalist Govern-ment at Nanking, make a spacious gesture, last week: He backed his brother-in-law, Finance Minister T. V. Soong, in promulgating a one-sentence exaggerated boast and flat defy to Chang Tso-lin, thus: "As the Nationalist Govern-ment controls sixteen of the twenty-one provinces of China, producing nearly 70% of the customs revenue, and as the authorities in control at Peking no longer repre- sent the legal successor of the former recognized Government, the Nationalist Government clearly cannot recognize the right of any other authorities independently...
...Olive Borden, a synthetic star at best, is herein tangled in elaborately scanty clothes and in the wiles of a blackmailer who has seen her entering the house of a presumably dissolute male friend. The male friend kills the blackmailer and is saved from the iron hand of the law when the heroine confesses her visitation. The invitation in the title should be declined by highly discriminating cine-maddicts...
...question of enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment has become an outstanding moral issue in America today and has raised the question of obedience to the fundamental law of our land, including all amendments to the Constitution, particularly the Fourteenth* and Fifteenth?...
...Jernagin pleaded in its favor on the grounds that it would give the Negro church confidence in white church cooperation on one of their major problems. After the afternoon's argumentation, the Federal Council next day ratified two separate resolutions. The first demanded, "effective enforcement of the Prohibition law." The second urged "honest enforcement of the Constitution, including all amendments...
...state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States...