Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...importance of the major subject of Prohibition by declaring it was a mere segment of the investigation. . . . I am no fanatical Prohibitionist. I am not an unreasoning vituperative zealot. I have never permitted any ecclesiastical despot* to control my thought or conduct. But I am for the Prohibition law and for a thorough inquiry to see if it can be enforced and, if not, what are the remedies. . . . But both the President and his Commission have gone as far afield as possible. . . . The investigation will not be through in one year or in two. Why, the stupendous task of investigating...
Democrats hailed this Minnesota by-election, called it "significant." In a district where Democratic vote crops have been measly for years, the party's nominee ran within 4,000 votes of Candidate Nolan (23.336 to 19,755). Reason: "agricultural inequalities" in the proposed new tariff law...
...question of international law...
...Gary, Indiana, last week, one Al Shaw was arrested for driving his automobile too slowly (15 m.p.h.). The State of Rhode Island, in an effort to speed up traffic, now has a law that passenger cars on open roads must travel at least 35 m.p.h. Indiana and Rhode Island notwithstanding, the legal speed limit of Prague, Czechoslovakia remains a conservative 9 m.p.h. (15 kilometers) where it was fixed by the Bohemian Government...
Moving only at the legal snailpace, Prague automobiles chugged leisurely through the streets. Raging policemen vainly tried to speed them up. Prague chauffeurs stoutly refused to break the law. Travelers missed their trains, traffic tangled in market place, stalled on bridges. The chauffeurs, enjoying themselves hugely, continued to bump slowly over the cobblestones. At nightfall gleeful Prague taxi drivers considered the old speed laws as good as repealed...