Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Administration of so called "criminal" justice can be greatly improved by fewer rigid laws such as those of the Jones 5 & 10 calibre. Bigger and better prisons and jails would not be needed if our present laws would demand that the intent of the accused to commit crime be established as per requirements of malum in se laws, rather than the laws which our "overworked" and zealous legislators hand out known as malum prohibition laws, where criminal intent is not essential to commit crime and to become a "criminal...
...resource upon which the new country was built. For generations it served as a prime political issue. In 1836 Henry Clay, then a U. S. Senator from Kentucky, pointed with pride to "the prodigious sum of one billion and eighty million acres" of public domain (about one-half the present size of the U. S.). Prophetically he exclaimed: "Long after we shall cease to be agitated by the Tariff, the public lands will remain a subject of deep and enduring interest...
Regular business on the agenda of the present league session will include the election by the council and assembly of two world court judges, and election by the assembly only of three minor nations to nonpermanent seats on the council...
...fifty-seventh council and the tenth annual assembly of the League of Nations got under way at Geneva last week with world interest focused almost solely on the newest one of the eight prime ministers present...
...fully appreciate the gravity of the present situation. Nevertheless I think it is a mistake to conclude that civil war will result from the recent clashes. . . . The Government is strong enough to prevent what the people are fearing from occurring...