Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mothers: 32 Children. In Russia no practical distinction is made between children born in or out of wedlock and either sort have legal claim to paternal support. Theoretically the Russian law is a sharp curb to carnality, since no man wants his entire income to be claimed by promiscuous children. Last week, however, a test case was curiously decided in Moscow when 10 unmarried mothers claimed support for their 32 children from a rich peasant, Ivan Bourov. In Bourov's case, the Court laid down a broad, general principal: "One third of a citizen's income...
Associate Justices at all the matches will be selected from prominent members of the legal profession in Boston...
...Passed bills for constructing, and extending time for constructing, sundry river bridges. (I Passed the bill amending the statute of limitations, to increase legal immunity (TIME, Dec. 26); sent. it to the President. ¶ Passed bills authorizing 25 millions to purchase for the U. S. a triangle of land in the District of Columbia (at Pennsylvania avenue and B street), and 100 millions more for Federal buildings outside of the District of Columbia; sent them to the Senate...
...Passed the Walsh Bills increasing legal immunity; sent them to the House...
...interest in things psychic. But Mr. Johnston gave the legislators' requests not even the ghost of a serious reception. When 110 legislators assembled two weeks ago in Oklahoma City and notified him that the Legislature was in special session, he said to their committee: "Your body has a legal right to meet as citizens only and not as a branch of the legislative body. I decline and hereby refuse to receive any report from you as representing a legally convened legislature." He cited a State Supreme Court decision to that effect. He posted three companies of National guardsmen...