Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austin sobbed soundless relief. Mr. Harriman licked dry lips noisily. Then Harriman and his white-haired wife went home to the Doctors' Hospital where they have both lived as patients since last fall Maximum penalty for the 16 counts on which Harriman was convicted is 80 years in jail, $80,000 fine...
...life. Urging the Governor's renomination to succeed him self, her plea was "Persecution!" Last week's verdict followed nearly 60 hours of deliberation by a jury of six businessmen, six farmers. Found guilty with Governor Langer were four political associates, including the State highway commissioner. Maximum sentence: two years in prison, $10,000 fine. While the Governor planned his appeal, Lieutenant Governor Ole H. Olson claimed the Governorship on the grounds that the fraud conviction made Governor Langer automatically ineligible for office...
...State Air Lines. Meanwhile in Washington Congress was putting the finishing touches to the new Air Mail Law before sending it on to the White House. The act establishes a 6? airmail postage rate, provides one-year mail contracts with rates to be fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission (maximum 40? per airplane mile), prohibits interlocking directorates and holding companies, limits each contractor to one primary and two secondary routes, permits carriers whose contracts were canceled to sue for damages through the Court of Claims, and authorizes a committee of five to complete an aviation survey by next February...
...Levands personally were acquitted. The Beacon was found guilty on five counts-first conviction under the 11-year-old Kansas law. Maximum penalty: $500 on each count. But nobody who knew anything about the Levands believed that the Beacon was more than momentarily dimmed...
...acute nostalgia to the days when curfew rang early and often for Widener. Though the shortcomings of the Father of Libraries have now been remedied on the whole, there is still room for considerable improvement with respect to Boylston and the House libraries if these are to be of maximum service to the students, particularly during the stress of the examination period...