Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Including Dorothy Boettiger, daughter of President Roosevelt's son-in-law, John Boettiger...
...Comptroller Leary, 24 of their henchmen and associates, including the State Commissioner of Statute Revision, several State Senators. The "rampant corruption" of which they were accused: cashing unnumbered city checks, spending city funds without vouchers, splitting fees with contractors for imaginary services, bribing State legislators (notably to get a law passed requiring the use in public toilets of sterilization equipment in which Lieutenant Governor Hayes and colleagues were interested). Strictly nonpartisan, the indictment named Republicans as well as Democrats. Honest, fussy, old (76) Democratic Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, who was dean of the Yale Graduate School until...
...have waited too long to be able to put on a large-scale revolt. But the Boss was still hoping for the support of five unnamed Governors to help him put over a national Rightist revolt. Late last week his wife, his four daughters and his brother-in-law motored to the U. S., temporarily settled in Texas...
...year-old Joseph Becker, who described how he ran his Bronx Baby Minding Service. One of the people who thus unexpectedly met Joseph Becker was New York's License Commissioner Paul Moss, who three days later summoned the young impresario, told him it is against the law to run an employment agency without a license. "I'll start another career," said Joseph Becker...
Isaac Newton, a prematurely born, posthumous son of a "wild, extravagant and weak" father, showed some aptitude for science in boyhood, went to Cambridge as a "poor scholar." In his twenties he made three of the greatest discoveries in human history: the Law of Gravitation, the system of mathematics called calculus, and the fact that white light is a composite of colored light. But he did not publish his Principia until two decades later, and then only at the urging of Halley, the comet man. After finishing the Principia, Newton almost lost his mind, but recovered and retained his faculties...