Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador to the Philippines. His friends let out word that Bohlen would soon come home from Manila to head a State Department policy-planning group dealing with Soviet problems. A later story from unnamed sources in Manila said that "Chip"' Bohlen, 54, eligible for retirement at the maximum allowable pension, would quit the Foreign Service unless he got just such a Washington...
Coming soon: Judge Morris' decision on whether Goldfine may purge himself by answering the unanswered questions, or whether he will be sentenced (maximum: a year in jail and a $1,000 fine) for contempt of Congress...
...Saturday nights. This ended neither the boozing nor the love-making on the dike. Last week Urk's irked elders cracked down. A new Urk law made it a crime to "trudge, slouch, lounge, saunter, flock together" or "to sit or lie" after dark along public roads. Maximum penalty: a fine of 300 guilders ($79) or two months in jail. Love-smitten Urkers hoped to get around the ban simply by taking to the woods on the mainland, a short bike ride away. Mourned one oldtimer: "Our world is turned upside down nowadays in Urk, and all because...
...TEAMSTER BOSS Dave Beck was indicted by federal grand jury with Roy Fruehauf, president of Fruehauf Trailer Co., and Burge Seymour, president of Associated Transport, Inc. Government charged that $200,000 loan from Fruehauf's and Seymour's companies violated Taft-Hartley Act. Maximum penalty: a year in jail and $10,000 fine...
Spare the Hops. The fact is, said the report, that many of Britain's laws go back to the Middle Ages when it was far more serious to disturb the economic and social feudal order than to kill or maim a man. The maximum penalty for blaspheming, destroying hops, burning a haystack, or "maliciously damaging a river bank" is still life imprisonment. But the maximum penalty for forcing a child to live in a brothel is six months, and having sexual intercourse with a child or maiming a person by reckless driving can bring only two years. In spite...