Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cases of syphilis discovered through various State examinations in the past year were divided equally between men and women; 2) many cases of gonorrhea were detected during the course of required physical examinations; 3) the number of marriages in New York and New Jersey declined sharply after the laws became effective last July. Since August, however, New York marriages have been increasing and marriages in Connecticut, first State to pass a test law, are as frequent as ever...
...Mutual Life of New York, Northwestern Mutual Life, New York Life and Connecticut Mutual had announced that they would soon make important changes in their contracts and every other important life insurance company was expected to follow suit. Immediate reason: Into effect on January 1 goes a New York law reducing from 6% to 5% the interest that life insurance companies may charge for policy loans...
...Dealer whom Jim Farley got appointed after Senator Bronson Cutting was killed in an air crash. Swart, Spanish-blooded poor-but-proud Senator Dennis Chavez, who got credit for most of the Federal funds obtained for New Mexico, also beheld four of his close relatives indicted: his son-in-law, Assistant U. S. Attorney Stanley W. P. Miller; his cousin, Salamon Chavez; his sister, Mrs. Anita Tafoya (in charge of a WPA sewing project) and Nephew Salamon Tafoya...
...Dempsey. Last year they got Fred Healy, now indicted, appointed WPAdministrator in place of Lee Rowland, a friend of their political opponent, Governor Clyde Tingley. The warm-blooded Senator warned people not to condemn his friends and relatives before they had their day in court; meantime, his son-in-law took the "advisable" step of "separating himself" from the Department of Justice...
...drugstore cowboy but a strapping 210-pounder born only 31 years ago on a Dakota County farm, Harold Stassen worked his way through the University of Minnesota Law School, for three years as a Pullman conductor. Aged 23, he was elected Dakota County attorney and has held that job ever since. Blue-eyed, ruddy, with a contagious smile and natural friendliness as strenuous as that of Kentucky's Happy Chandler, Stassen soon became a force among Minnesota's Young Republicans. This year he led their test of strength against the Old Republicans, easily overwhelmed Old Guarder Martin Nelson...