Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eighth inning to avoid the crush after the ninth. Last week that kind of discretion may have motivated the resignation of one of Franklin Roosevelt's most faithful and useful sub-Cabinet henchmen: chunky, chipmunk-cheeked Joseph Berry ("Joe") Keenan, 51, who was called from his profitable Cleveland law practice to assist Attorney-General Homer Cummings with criminal prosecutions at the peak of the Kidnap Era (1933) and who stayed on to become chief White House overseer of the Senate, especially in Federal judgeship appointments. Should the New Deal game end in late 1940 and hordes of its legal...
...Teachers Oath law appeared permanently written into the State Statutes yesterday when the House of Representatives refused to reconsider the repeal bill, which it defeated last Thursday, by a vote...
Because the state has adopted biennial sessions for the Legislature the drive to remove the oath law from the books will not come up again until 1941. Informed circles at the State House said that had the Governor been pressed for a statement on Thursday the measure might have gone through, but that it had little chance of passage after today's roll call...
Once again Representative Ralph Clampit lead a vain effort from the floor to push the bill through to the Senate. He was supported by Representative John Vaughan of Belmont who cried that the law is a "wedge in our Constitution into which the moisture will creep, and in no time mildew will rot out our rights and the foundations of our government...
...conclusive defeat of the repeal bill yesterday was the fourth of a series of reversals for opposition forces of the oath. Two years ago the law narrowly escaped erasure from the books when, after passing in both the House and the Senate, it met the veto of Governor Hurley...