Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president. Often he travels in Canada, in South America, less often in the U. S. Last summer he was in Algiers. Arrested with the Count last week was one Philip Gowen who, according to M. de Polignac "was American agent of my company from 1904 till the Prohibition Law." He alone of the 32 who formed the ''ring" at the time of his arrest did M. de Polignac claim to know. Later developments: the Count de Polignac sailed as he had previously intended on the Paris. His pistol but not his liquor was returned to him. Said...
Last week a band of them, cursing "Scabs" started for the mill. Police intervened, turned them back to camp. Inside, a fight between two strikers brought the police. The strikers' guard opened fire on the law. Chief Aderholt, three policemen and Joseph Harrison, a union organizer, were shot in the fracas...
...eight people in the Banker's party (including a son, a daughter-in-law, grandchildren) were given free entry of the port because his trip had been on government business. But Banker Morgan, unaware of the honored privilege, had already declared his luggage and permitted a customs inspector to open three suitcases and examine their contents. Perhaps never had so great a banker appeared in so happy a light...
Ever since the Dayton, Tenn., "monkey trial" of 1925, which was a technical victory for Fundamentalism because William Jennings Bryan swung a hillbilly jury away from Clarence Darrow and one John Thomas Scopes was fined $100 for teaching Evolution in contravention of the State law, Fundamentalists have been saying not only that Evolution is a "mere guess." but that scientists, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, admit that it is a mere guess. Two States have since passed laws like Tennessee's. Other states ban evolutionary textbooks from the public schools. Therefore, the executive committee...
Elihu Root D. Civil Law...