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...several of the 48 states, the reform-urgers might have crusaded against even more lenient laws. In five southern states, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi and Virginia, twelve-year-old girls may take the marriage vow with their parents' consent; in New Hampshire 13 years' experience of this world is considered sufficient for wedlock...
...Texas laws for homicide are lenient, providing only that in a plea of self-defense the defendant shall prove that his decision to "get there first" was reasonable. "... it makes no difference whether, in fact, real danger exists. . . ." Commenting upon the Pastor's successful charge of prejudice, Texan expatriates drawled: "Texas must sure have changed, if people down there now entertain prejudice against murder...
...observations on the transference of physical characteristics and Professor Kammerer was hailed by some as brilliant genius, by others as deluded fool. Dr. G. K. Noble of the American Museum of Natural History examined Professor Kammerer's depositions and in an article for Nature (British monthly) drew the lenient conclusion that someone may have tampered with Dr. Kammerer's specimens. In particular, certain dark spots on some of the frogs might have been produced., not by inheritance, but by injecting a dark fluid under the skin, perhaps India ink. When he saw this suggestion, Dr. Kammerer...
...Caillaux, leaving hastily after the meagre vote of confidence rushed to London. There he bargained for lenient Franco-British debt terms got them. France will pay in the current financial year about $20,000,000, with gradually increasing payments until the 60th year, when the full previously arranged $62,500,000 will be reached. M. Caillaux's cold financial heart pulsated with gratitude at Chancellor Churchill's concession of a "safeguard clause" (protection of French interests in the event Germany should default in her reparations payments...
Prohibition. Measures alike for making the Volstead Act more stringent and making it more lenient were announced to be dead last week...