Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about crime detection beyond what fiction and films have taught them, who are nevertheless often obliged, in a pinch, to turn detective. Thirty-five ambitious, youngish men from 23 States last week buckled down to an intensive program of lectures, demonstrations, discussions. Their teachers were from Northwestern's Law School, from the famed Crime Detection Laboratory recently sold to Chicago by Northwestern...
...Angeles lawyer's office, one-time Cinemoppet Jackie (The Kid) Coogan bestowed a kiss upon the cheek of Mrs. Lillian Coogan Bernstein, his mother and bitter opponent in a law suit over his $4,000,000 estate (TIME, April 18). Mrs. Bernstein wept...
...stages of a science, the classification of its subject matter is a necessary job. Dr. La Piere divides collective behavior into several categories: institutional, conventional, regimental and formal (marriages, funerals, military organization and conduct, etc.); congenial (recreation); audience behavior; exchange (economic) and politic (political); nomothetic (behavior in regard to law); and such "escape" types of group behavior as panic, revelous, fanatical and rebellious.† By "revelous" behavior. Dr. La Piere means all kinds of revelry which serve to discharge tensions accumulated in day-to-day living-harvest festivals of peasants, New Year's celebrations in cities, orgiastic dances...
Foreign and domestic capital poured in and sugar operations mushroomed to enormous proportions-80% of Cuba's entire industry. Sugar refineries, steaming night and day, burned anything they could lay their hands on, even green trees. Cuba's legislature passed a law allowing crude oil destined for the sugar industry to come in duty free, but the demand for fuel was insatiable and oil companies began to look into the old possibility of a big native supply from which pipe lines could be run directly to the refineries...
...later, the possibility of Cuba's harboring a great oil reservoir is again under investigation. Geologists are examining cores from thousands of feet below the surface; radio seismograph crews are sounding in Cuba's hills. Designed to bolster the island's limited revenues, the new petroleum law passed by the legislature all but forces activity on concessions by requiring each concessionaire to drill within five years at least one well to 4,000 feet unless oil is struck at lesser depth; the alternative to such exploitation is Government confiscation...