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Word: montani (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day "moderate" shocks visited the Midwest, which, unlike California, lies far outside the world belt of earthquake frequency. In Indianapolis, Miss Lamar Montani was rolled out of bed and iron bars in the Bell Telephone offices were jounced off tables. In a prison at Jackson, Mich., convicts were thrown into a panic. In Anna, Ohio, chimneys knocked down by quakes last fortnight and subsequently repaired, tumbled again. Shaken residents of Dayton heard, or thought they heard, a deep rumble. In parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ontario, New York, West Virginia and Kentucky, furniture danced, dishes rattled, pictures fell, canned goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Slips & Snap-backs | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...less than the 28.5¢ minimum hourly wage required by the Lumber & Timber Products Code. The McDowell County prosecutor went to Circuit Judge Beno F. Howard, asked for an injunction against Miller Killem under the State NRA enforcement law. Judge Howard must have remembered the motto of West Virginia, Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers Always Freemen), when he handed down his decision. Maintaining that it was "not the purpose of this decision to interfere with'' NRA's collective bargaining provisions, he nevertheless denied the prosecutor's petition. Grounds: "It amounts to the deprivation of the fundamental right which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judiciary: Courts v. Recovery | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

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