Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twenty-six such bodies sent delegates to the gathering last week. Largely through the efforts of the National Commission 42 states made 587 criminal code amendments. Some of these amendments the commission found foolish?such as Missouri's making dog-stealing grand larceny* and Idaho's law against buying or selling chickens after dark with out notifying a sheriff. But nine-tenths of the changes were declared "seriously and carefully considered"?anti-pistol laws in Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island;? Baumes-type laws in Vermont, Minnesota, Missouri, Massachusetts and Iowa; a whole new code in California; the appointment...
...Miss Leona Marie Esch of Cleveland said that the only way to beat the criminal was to "load the dice," i.e. stiffen the law. "He gambles with the law," said Miss Esch, "playing three to one he never will be caught, two to one he never will be convicted, and then playing a last chance [that] he will never be sent to a state penal institution...
...Baumes Code, effective last year in New York, copied widely since, imposes life imprisonment upon any thrice-convicted person who is convicted a fourth time, no matter how trivial the fourth offender may seem. Lately, under Michigan's new Baumes Law, a three-time convict was sentenced for _ life when caught with one bottle of bootleg...
...Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, is the author of a concise and accurate sketch of Mr. Baker: "His resemblance to Charles Lamb, Voltaire and Mephistopheles is amusing; but his eyes, if not finer, are more kindly than Satan's. He works all day and reads all night in law and literature. His garden abuts upon a golf course; but on Sunday (summer) afternoons he weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes. He is an author of the truest quality and his voice?a voice of liquid gold?is lent to every civic cause. He is a trades unionist in principle...
Monday. All day at his law office (Baker, Hostetler & Sidlo). Ten or a dozen callers on as many varied cases. . . . Boarded the 8:40 o'clock Baltimore & Ohio sleeper for Washington, D. C. Smoked a pipe (old, well-caked, straight-and-long stemmed, strong tobacco), retired, read in berth...