Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legal Aid Bureau and Law Review stalwarts battled it out to a 6-6 tie in touch football yesterday morning with James A McLaughlin, professor of Law, as referee...
Little Richard Kleberg was brought to King Ranch at a tender age and grew up there, rough-riding over its vastnesses, clanking his spurs through the palatial ranch house, "Santa Gertrudis," which would put most Newport mansions to shame. His father sent him to law school at the University of Texas, after which he took up his duties as a King-Kleberg, helped manage the ranch from 1911 to 1924. Since then he has been the Kleberg front man. His younger brother Robert Justus Jr. sees to the King's 125,000 head of livestock, including the Klebergs...
...President of the United States last week enjoyed himself in the role of country squire at Hyde Park. He gave out one formal statement, expressing his hopes that the new Wages & Hours law would work, and that employers doing intrastate business would comply with its spirit. For the rest he drove in his car through the woodland roads of his estate, watching his trees grow, and enjoyed the squirely duty of receiving visitors. No ordinary squire, he naturally had callers of no ordinary distinction...
...campaign of Robert A. Taft, who is trying to unseat Ohio's Senator Bulkley) : "The money you have paid into the Treasury for your old-age pension is not there. It has been spent, for Heaven knows what, and in its place is only an I.O.U. Unless the law is changed, when the time comes to start paying you a pension the Treasury will be required either to default or to tax you and the remainder of the country to get the money. . . . Instead of weakening Social Security, Republicans will strengthen it . . . put a firm foundation under that column...
Premier Daladier has lengthened French working hours by scrapping the 40-Hour-Week Law in "industries vital to national safety." He has broken with the Communist Party, formerly a pillar of the French Popular Front coalition, to the delight of Berlin. And Premier Daladier has recognized the Italian conquest in Ethiopia by appointing Andre Frangois-Poncet to Rome as the first French Ambassador ever accredited to "Emperor Vittorio Emanuele." All this meant that France had been scared into swerving Right...