Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tony Stralla, defiant in a tan sombrero, angrily snorted that he had "enough food for a year" on board. He threatened to have the law on Attorney General Warren and his "pirates." While he stuck to his anchorage, far away in Washington large legal wheels began spinning. The House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate a quick measure, approved by U. S. Attorney General Murphy, making it a crime to operate a gambling ship under U. S. registry. Tony Stralla had an answer for that one. If need be, said he, he would fly the flag of Japan...
...would be "wide open" at Saratoga Springs during this season's Diamond Jubilee race meeting, Lieutenant Governor Charles Poletti of New York last week gave assurance that nothing of the sort would be allowed; in Governor Herbert Lehman's absence on vacation, his office would expect the law to be enforced. As in years gone by, Saratoga's gambling public was thus obliged to bank its own games in its own parlors, or travel by night to hideouts...
...weeks ago, Alien Bridges denied in two Nos that he is or ever was a Communist. For all that the next 15 Government witnesses established to the contrary, the Service's Deputy Commissioner Thomas B. Shoemaker might have dispensed with them and saved much wear & tear on Harvard Law School's Dean James M. Landis, sitting as special examiner by the very special request of Secretary of Labor Perkins. Since Mr. Shoemaker had no direct evidence that Bridges actually belonged to the Communist Party when the complaint was filed (March 2, 1938), his only recourse was an attempt...
...Virginia's Democratic primary last week, Carter Glass Jr. lost out for the State Senate, but Andrew Mellon's son-in-law, David K. E. Bruce, won his race. It was the first try for each...
...alcohol. At the Royal Yacht Club Britons drank champagne and sang Auld Lang Syne as midnight struck and prohibition went into effect in the Bombay Presidency (77,221 square miles). For Bombay's 8,000 foreigners, mostly located in the city of Bombay (pop. 1,161,383), the law meant liquor rations -seven bottles of whiskey, or 21 bottles of wine, or 63 bottles of beer a month. It meant the closing of the celebrated Taj Mahal Palace Hotel Bar, centre of Bombay's white community, where Britons regularly go for their "sundowners," the neat, half-size whiskey...