Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years the maximum height for buildings in Boston was 125 feet above the street. Three years ago this was changed to 155 feet, and today we have a most unique law which does not restrict the height of a building provided its cubical contents do not exceed the area of the lot times 155. This represents the height of human ingenuity in determining how to solve traffic and light problems...
...subject upcropped without warning before the twenty-first conference of Governors assembled at New London, Conn. (seep. 11). Heretofore these political meetings had studiously avoided this political subject. When governors did debate it last week, their sentiment was preponderantly Dry, as was to be expected among politicians discussing the law of the land...
...Prohibition question was injected into the otherwise tranquil conference by a letter from Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the National Law Enforcement Commission to Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York in which Mr. Wickersham proposed an enforcement scheme whereby the U. S. would deal with wholesale bootleggery, the States with the retail trade. He hinted at modification to make the law "reasonably enforceable...
...York State banking law permits private bankers in smaller cities to accept smaller accounts without supervision, the amounts varying with the size of the city...
Members of Parliament were incensed at the Bishops' action. Laborite Holford George Wilfrid Knight promised to take up the matter at once with Prime Minister MacDonald, to make the Bishops "set an example to the nation of obedience to law and respect for the sanctity of a contract...