Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thousands of Czechoslovakians last week went to bed with gas masks at their bedsides. By law, every Czech citizen in cities must possess a gas mask before the end of June, and last week, reported Eleanor Packard, wife of United Pressman Reynolds Packard, thousands jammed Prague's 20 gas mask dispensaries where attractive blondes demonstrated the operating technique. "I bought a de luxe model for $6.68 with a head piece that seemed like a set of rubber false teeth, with goggle eyes and a dog-like nose. It had a snubbier nose and bigger eye pieces than the standard...
Most controversial of the new French labor laws enacted two years ago by Socialist Léon Blum's Popular Front Government was a rigid 40-hour working week. To millions of French workers this meant less work, a general five-day week. To the French employer the law was anathema. To hundreds of thousands of tourists the law meant that banks would be closed all day Saturdays, that big Paris stores would not open Mondays...
...Spain, New York Times Correspondent Lawrence A. Fernsworth, temporarily in Marseille, reported last week that agents of the Leftist military police, dissatisfied with the slowness of civil judicial authorities in dispatching alleged members of Barcelona's "Fifth Column" (Franco supporters within the city), recently "started to take the law into their own hands by seizing prisoners at night and executing them in isolated spots. They had executed between 20 and 30 persons before their activities were ended...
...found Johnny sleeping with three other children in one bed, four more Goodman children in another bed in the same room. Mother Goodman, accustomed to peasant ways, refused to send Johnny to an isolation hospital or keep him from the other children. The health authorities, unable to find a law to compel Mother Goodman to do what she did not want to do with her brood, placarded the house and went away. Johnny got well. None of the other children got diphtheria...
Medically speaking, insanity is a disease of the mind such as schizophrenia or paranoia. But in the eyes of the law, insanity may be a temporary mental derangement which renders a person not responsible for his acts. After Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, a Manhattan neurologist, told a jury that Thaw was thus deranged at the time of the shooting, he was acquitted, confined in an asylum. Later a jury found him sane, set him free...