Word: misdemeanor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmer growing more than his quota would have to pay a penalty of 25% to 50% of gross value to get a state marketing certificate to make its sale legal. Either buying or selling tobacco contrary to the state law would be a misdemeanor and would subject the violator to civil penalties equal to three times the value of the tobacco...
...Angeles, the City Council rejected an ordinance proposed by Councilman G. Vernon Bennett making it a misdemeanor for "two or more men or boys 14 years of age or over to ogle women in public places." City Attorney Ray Cheseboro promptly denounced the measure, pointed out its discriminatory illegality in protecting women from men, leaving men unprotected from women. Furthermore, said he, the anti-ogling ordinance "could not be enforced, due to the virtual impossibility of getting a jury of men who have not themselves ogled at one time or another...
Last month practically every Alabama newspaper including the Eagle was calling on jolly Governor Bibb Graves to veto an antisedition bill, just passed by the Legislature, making it a misdemeanor to advocate the overthrow of the government by violence or to own more than one copy of a publication doing so.* The newspaper howls turned to cheers when Governor Graves finally vetoed the bill. Last fortnight the cheers turned back to howls when it appeared that the Governor had waited one day too long to veto the bill which had automatically become the law of Alabama. Other Alabama editors just...
...soul, Evidently believing with Carlyle that the social hierarchy is based on clothes, the Assembly last week declared that "to expose the person or the private parts thereof" in the presence of two or more persons of the opposite sex who are similarly unclothed shall be a misdemeanor." The proponents of the bill carefully explain that it does not prohibit nudity in the theater, since audiences are decently attired. Perhaps the law was suggested by Actors' Equity as protection from non-professional competition...
...leaf period and quote the twenty-fifth verse of Chapter two of Genesis: "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."--but there was no second "person of the opposite sex" present, so that our first parents need not add a misdemeanor to their already heavy burden of responsibility...