Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five year maximum sentence for all violations of the Volstead Act, thereby making any infraction of this law a felony whereas before minor first offenses had been only misdemeanors* Several misdemeanors are necessary to deport an undesirable alien. For one felony he may be sent promptly out of the U.S. By this penal change alien bootleggers may be shipped swiftly from the country...
...plain that we have started a race in building. It is tolerably plain that the limit [10,000 tons] was put too high for real economy. Other countries set about designing and authorizing the building of a number of these large cruisers, with the result that instead of the maximum [in size] they become standard. We naturally had to do the same thing. But it was not until 1924, two or three years after the Washington Conference, that any of these cruisers were laid down in this country. That was done by the Socialist [British Labor] Government...
...opposition to the powerful La Follette group which has for many a year controlled Wisconsin politics. Angry, the bitter-enders among the La Follette organization drew up a petition accusing Governor Kohler of having spent $104,000 on his campaign. As the Wisconsin law puts $4,000 as a maximum campaign expenditure, the petitioners sought to disqualify the Governor from office as a violator of the states's corrupt practices act. Among signers of the petition was Philip La Follette, brother of the present, son of the late Senator Robert Marion La Follette. Action on the petition...
During his Great Western period Mr. Chrysler lived in Oelwein, Iowa. His mechanical curiosity was aroused by the two or three horseless thing-a-ma-jigs that sometimes moved through the streets, especially on Sundays, chugging and snorting and kicking up dust with a maximum of noise and a minimum of grace. They were called "automobiles" and Oelwein's farmers agreed contemptuously with turn-of-the-century cartoonists that the only difference between an automobilist and a dum-fool was that the dumfool was prob'ly born that way and couldn't help it. Engineer Chrysler gave...
...view of the fifteen months period of maxima and minima which appears to be definitely located both in the sunspot and radio curve, we may look for another maximum of solar activity in September or October...