Word: laws
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...comes easily to the son of an immigrant Estonian cobbler. As a child, Shapiro handled so many shoes for the Catholic fathers of St. Viator College that when the Jewish lad went there himself, he knew the faculty members not only by name but by feet. After getting a law degree from the University of Illinois in 1929, he set up practice in Kankakee, joined the Young Democrats, met Kerner, and won election in 1936 as Kankakee state's attorney despite the area's Republican preponderance. He convicted the state public-welfare director for neglect of duty after...
...about education, public works and inflation-and Nixon quickly stressed those issues. Pollster John F. Kraft warned Robert Kennedy before the Indiana primary that he had the Negro vote sewed up but faced trouble from blue-collar whites; Kennedy shifted his campaign emphasis from help for the poor to law and order...
With 73 parties to choose from, Italy's general elections last week seemed to offer something for every political shopper. The candidates represented all political brands from neo-Fascism to Communism. Yet, obliged by law to go to the polls, 1,000,000 Italians rejected the lot and cast blank ballots-the highest no-to-everybody vote ever registered in Italy. Amid all the statistics to come out of the election, this was the most easily understood, and perhaps the most significant...
Motive & Malice. Ginzburg began that process with the publication of a magazine called Eros and the sale of a book called The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity. Decisions already in the law books told him that his products could only be proscribed if they had no redeeming social value- and he seemed to be challenging the Government to prove they did not. The Supreme Court answered the challenge by surprising Ginzburg with a new rule: his methods of advertising and distribution, said the court, made him guilty of peddling pornography. It upheld a five-year prison sentence, which...
...federal and state authorities investigating almost any serious crime; federal authorities would not need a court order in emergency situations involving national security or organized crime. The legislators also authorized a ban on the mail-order sale of handguns, as well as $100 million in federal funds for local law enforcement. And, as many civil libertarians feared, the Senators voted to repeal some Supreme Court rulings they considered were hampering the police...