Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal District judges of the U. S. went back to school last winter. So did a great many U. S. lawyers. For by an order of Congress issued in 1934, the Supreme Court of the U. S. had rewritten the rules under which the grave game of civil justice shall be played in the Federal District Courts. Last December, Chief Justice Hughes reported the new rules (with Justice Brandeis dissenting) to the Attorney General, who in January reported them to Congress, which published them. Last week they became effective. Lawyers agreed with Attorney General Cummings when he described them...
Enough Rope. Falkenau, a typical Sudeten German town, was a flaunting forest of swastika banners on the afternoon before this Henlein order went out. By next morning not a single swastika was flying in Falkenau, and on the streets Nazis no longer greeted each other with the Hitler salute, as all had done the day before...
...Party Activity." This proclamation the Czechoslovak Cabinet studied for two hours, then decided it was treason. President Benes ordered not only the arrest of Henlein, now a fugitive, should he ever return, but also immediate confiscation of Sudeten Nazi Party funds and property including firearms. Nazi Deputies were not deprived of their parliamentary standing and immunity, but the President declared Parliament adjourned, and his decree enjoined all Nazis against "party activity." The north, east and south districts were still calm, but in the west bloody scuffles continued. The Government, in efforts to convince Sudeten Nazis that their game...
...human male attains his highest fertility during his twenties, Dr. Pelzman's present list of 15 is drawn mostly from medical students and interns who are glad to get the $25 fee per insemination. Operation of the bureau will be very simple. Dr. Pelzman will merely collect to order tubes of fresh, fertile spermatozoa and deliver them to a gynecologist...
...fact that it was a bright morning penetrated his brain, and he wondered why he'd set the clock at all. A blurry glance at his desk calendar told him it was Friday, September 23. Resisting an impulse to say so what, Vag took to scrutinizing his room in order to discover what he was doing semi-awake at the depressing hour of eight-thirty. He noticed a familiar, ugly gray catalogue entitled "Official Register of Harv----." In a flash he understood: it was registration day for Freshmen. Work to be done, he murmured, as the pulled on clothes...