Word: misdemeanor
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...Waters declared one of the greatest difficulties of the present time in that 80 percent of criminal offences, in the misdemeanor class, are punished with the utmost severity. She added that people in the "culture group" just above do the same things "only respectably...
...Victorian-looking mayor's office and started to rattle the stained-glass windows. He gave his cops a single order-close down or else, Minneapolis closed down overnight, even to the slot machines at American Legion hall. He pushed through a city FEPC which made it a misdemeanor ($100 or 90 days) to discriminate in employment. He warned management that he would not use police to break up picket lines. When the labor bosses who had helped put him in office protested his selection of a police chief, Humphrey told them flatly: "I'm my own boss...
...Wyoming's State Aeronautics Commission asked for a law making it a misdemeanor to fly an airplane while drunk...
John R. King, chief of the Cambridge police force, announced that parking violators would only be warned on their first offence, but that the second misdemeanor would entail a fine of $1, every offence thereafter bringing the miscreant closer to a court appearance...
...saleslady cited yesterday a municipal regulation more vigorously enforced than the standing five-wampum-belt fine for kissing the wife on the Sabbath. The law makes it a misdemeanor to negotiate pavement sales without a license...