Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nevertheless, the old taboos die hard. Last week produced an interesting anomaly in the record of modern public health education: a four-page spread of text and pictures of how babies are born. Although it had been approved by the U. S. Post Office, it was banned by local law officers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and some 60 other communities. No copies were permitted to cross the Canadian border. The birth pictures appeared in the April 11 issue of 17-month-old LIFE...
...cycle [of infertility] reliable in the average woman?" Replied Obstetrician Frederick Walter Rice: "The rhythmic cycle is the only recourse left to the Catholic. It will be only when physicians can give data about each woman in regard to the cycle that Catholics can live freely within the moral law...
...futures market, claiming that speculation was rife (TIME, Dec. 6). Finding that wool trading was similar to trading in other commodity futures, the Senate decided to put wool markets also under the eye of the Commodity Exchange Administration and last week President Roosevelt's signature made the bill law...
...Bureau of Internal Revenue last week announced that during the past fiscal year it paid $75,641.18 in 77 bonuses to people who tattled on tax evaders. Authorized by law to pay informers up to 10% of the amount recovered, the Revenue Bureau makes it relatively easy for a would-be tattler. He merely gets in touch with Internal Revenue field agents or directly with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in Washington, reports that someone has skimped in his tax report. If the evidence seems reasonable, field agents inspect questionable records, interview the suspected offender, notify the proper tax division...
...public confession was due from him. . . . He added that he was determined to meet the consequences. In 36 years of experience at the bar I had never heard such an astonishing statement. . . . There are other men without number who have sought legal advice to avoid or delay the law, have lent a willing ear to tactics or procrastination, have stooped to pleas denying mental or moral responsibility or have chosen the coward's course of flight from the country or from life. . . . Never once has he faltered. Never once has he asked consideration, much less mercy, for himself. With...