Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meetings, radio time to tell the unemployed where their "interests" in the Congressional campaign lie. Unimpressed, Chairman Sheppard last week wrote to President Lasser: "Personally, I warn you . . . not to carry out this proposed plan. . . . If you proceed. . . and if the committee should agree with my interpretation of the law, it is my intention to request the committee to refer the matter to the Department of Justice...
...proposal for large-scale public housing, by inserting a clause forbidding the State to finance any housing program from real-estate taxes except in emergencies. With some Democratic and more Republican support, he tacked onto the judiciary article a section empowering the courts to review facts as well as law in appeals from decisions of State administrative agencies-which would give State courts more control over State wage-&-hour and labor administrators than the U. S. Supreme Court exercises over their national counterparts. When admiring Republican Hamilton Fish Jr. proposed Mr. Smith for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator...
...threat potentially more fearsome to gamblers, however, than State's Attorney Courtney-whose zeal, they guessed, would cool after election-was an archaic legal rattrap brought out and set last week by an irate Chicago matron in behalf of her son-in-law. Paragraph No. 330 (enacted in 1817) of Illinois' Criminal Code sets forth that: 1) any person losing $10 or more gambling in Illinois can sue the winner and recover his money; 2) if a loser does not sue within six months, "any person" can sue the winner for three times the loser's losses...
Former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 38-year-old Landis came to Harvard to head the Law School last fall...
Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Law here, had his stock boosted for the position of Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court when Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska urged President Roosevelt to appoint the original New Deal "braintruster...