Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veteran of the 1915 convention. After a learned speech by President Crane on the virtues of democracy, the delegates, who will receive a $2,500 salary for their streamlining and hope to finish it by summer, recessed. Major streamlines suggested: a unicameral Legislature; replacing the present Department of Law under an elected Attorney-General by a department of justice under an Attorney-General appointed by the Governor; reapportionment of Senate & Assembly districts; restricting the State's authority to force expenditures by municipal budgets; legalization of parimutuel betting...
...readers last week saw Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain watching like a pastoral shepherd the cooing of doves of peace and the gamboling of two spring lambs, respectively the British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Italy, Lord Perth, and Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law (see cut). To a loudly cheering audience in his native Birmingham last week, the Prime Minister predicted that when the Anglo-Italian Treaty which Perth & Ciano have now negotiated in Rome is made public officially "It will be found that it is not the Prime Minister who has been fooled...
...Hyde Park. The young woman proved to be the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, a daughter of Lord Redesdale, who is pro-German, and she has worn her swastika ever since it was given her by Adolf Hitler. The Hon. Unity's 19-year-old brother-in-law, Mr. Esmond Marcus David Romilly, a nephew of Winston Churchill, was among the first foreign friends of Leftist Spain to enlist in its People's Army (see p. 21), fought in defense of Madrid, is a British Communist...
When Cardinal Innitzer emerged, he virtually retracted the plebiscite statement, declaring in Osservatore Romano that it "did not intend to be an approval of what was, or is, irreconcilable with the law of God and the freedom and rights of the Catholic Church. Besides, that declaration must not be interpreted by the State and by the party as an obligation of conscience, nor must it be employed for propaganda purposes...
When William S. Hart, aging patriarch of the Westerns, slid wearily from the saddle more than a decade ago, Buck Jones (real name: Charles Gebhart) already had a leg up on his larruping, law-&-order cinema career. Still riding like a Centaur after 20 years in pictures, 6-foot, 175-pound, 48-year-old Buck Jones roams a wider cinema range than did Bill Hart, sometimes puffs breakfast cereals over the radio. Last year Buck Jones earned as much as $7,500 a week, took in about $300,000 all told. Whenever a Buck Jones picture goes...