Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most of these cinema taxpayers were only too anxious to meet large penalty assessments rather than criminal charges. A large migration from Hollywood to the Treasury Department may be shortly anticipated...
...Personal Liberty Committee" was formed in Manhattan last week by young lawyers opposing prohibition who promised to defend without charge "worthy cases who may be subject to the heavy penalties provided under that [Five & Ten] law." Seven onetime assistant U. S. District Attorneys signed up. Dry leaders in Washington were enraged at this "disrespect...
...There will be no leases or disposal of government oil lands . . . except those which may be made mandatory by Congress.* In other words there will be a complete conservation of government oil for this administration...
...depression it has sunk into through overproducing. Only one-tenth of U. S. oil production comes from government land. The Hoover order will cut this production in half, thus reducing the whole industry's supply by only 5%. But the moral effect of the move may be great...
Said the Butler report: "However reprehensible it may be for this woman to marry the Indian for mercenary purposes and to procure the assistance of lawyers to aid her in becoming possessed of his property as his wife, it is not a crime nor is her procurement of assistance a conspiracy to commit a crime...