Word: legally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Article 36 provides that all member nations of the World Court subscribing to this clause must recognize its jurisdiction in any legal dispute concerning...
...last week, one Al Shaw was arrested for driving his automobile too slowly (15 m.p.h.). The State of Rhode Island, in an effort to speed up traffic, now has a law that passenger cars on open roads must travel at least 35 m.p.h. Indiana and Rhode Island notwithstanding, the legal speed limit of Prague, Czechoslovakia remains a conservative 9 m.p.h. (15 kilometers) where it was fixed by the Bohemian Government...
Moving only at the legal snailpace, Prague automobiles chugged leisurely through the streets. Raging policemen vainly tried to speed them up. Prague chauffeurs stoutly refused to break the law. Travelers missed their trains, traffic tangled in market place, stalled on bridges. The chauffeurs, enjoying themselves hugely, continued to bump slowly over the cobblestones. At nightfall gleeful Prague taxi drivers considered the old speed laws as good as repealed...
...royalties to the pool members. The U. S. government turned a suspicious eye toward the pool and its activities. In 1924, anti-trust proceedings were instituted against the Patent Club and 48 associated companies. In 1927 a Master in Chancery reported that the pool was necessary (and therefore legal) because overlapping patents compelled some pooling arrangement.* This report the U. S. District Court ignored and last week declared against the Patent Club. Three U. S. Federal judges in the Chicago district decided (2 t01) that the cracking patents were not overlapping, that the pool and its methods of operation represented...
Author Arthur Train deserted the legal profession to indict law and society in novels (Page Mr. Tutt, Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt, etc., etc.) which have been as readable as they were scathing. But the Train output has now slid off into a slow, melodramatic, sentimental tale of a prestidigitator who breaks into a New York society composed of retired truck-drivers. A truck-driver's debutante daughter lures the magician, but his old flame and vaudeville partner gets him back by misplaying their best act. The act: blindfolded, the girl stands on the stage holding a plate in her hand...