Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these amendments the commission found foolish?such as Missouri's making dog-stealing grand larceny* and Idaho's law against buying or selling chickens after dark with out notifying a sheriff. But nine-tenths of the changes were declared "seriously and carefully considered"?anti-pistol laws in Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island;? Baumes-type laws in Vermont, Minnesota, Missouri, Massachusetts and Iowa; a whole new code in California; the appointment of a commission in Louisiana to rewrite the century-old Napoleonic code...
...Baumes Code, effective last year in New York, copied widely since, imposes life imprisonment upon any thrice-convicted person who is convicted a fourth time, no matter how trivial the fourth offender may seem. Lately, under Michigan's new Baumes Law, a three-time convict was sentenced for _ life when caught with one bottle of bootleg...
...Harvard and Brown, I really prefer not to say. For on that game little Joe and I have had our first big differences of opinion. And who knows, the little chap may be right. So I'll just keep still. Yale 16 Princeton 7 Dartmouth 34 Cornel l7 Michigan 13 Navy 7 Notre Dame 20 Army 6 Georgetown 27 Boston College 0 Tufts 20 Bowdoin 0 Williams 14 Amherst 3 N. Y. C. 13 Penn State...
...announced, shouting to make himself heard above the din of his combined quartette and sailor orchestra "is to assure the President that the people of Chicago are virtually 100 per cent in favor of legislation that will settle the Mississippi flood problem." Chicago is a large city on Lake Michigan...
Engaged. Miss Madeleine Couzens, 22, daughter of U. S. Senator from Michigan James Couzens; to one William Rumer Yaw, graduate of Ohio State University...