Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jury of men and women retired at 9:30 a. m. and returned to the court room at 8:30 p. m. with the verdict that bay rum sold in three-ounce bottles at Woolworth's 5 & 10 Cent Stores was an intoxicating beverage within the meaning of the law...
...years the state of Maine has had a law forbidding the export beyond the state boundaries of hydro-electric power. Moreover, Maine is the seventh largest producer of hydro-electric power in the U. S., third largest potential producer east of the Mississippi. Last week Maine voters were offered a referendum on a new law permitting the export, under supervision of the Public Utilities Commission, of power generated in excess of local consumption...
Actively opposed to the export law was only one newspaper, the two-year-old Portland Evening News, edited by Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening. It campaigned against "Insullism," propounded again and again the question: "Shall the voters of Maine become yes-men for Samuel Insull?" It estimated that the power interests had spent $300,000 for the export bill, that the opposition had spent less than...
While deportation would not be new to the Doukhobors, to Canada it would represent a reversal of judgment. In 1901 the Minister of Justice told the House of Commons that not a single offense had been committed by the Doukhobors; that they were "law abiding," and if good conduct was a recommendation, they were "good immigrants...
Bankers Reynolds and Traylor were both farmer lads, both rose through law to banking, both were personal protégés of elder bankers, both are Democrats...