Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week there was no body of information available to British press or public on which any such charges as those of Richard Stokes could be made to stick in a court of law. But everyone was hearing stories of disgruntled contractors who complained of price rigging on Government contracts by successful rival contractors...
...Liberals had no trouble making the point that Premier Duplessis had raised the conscription issue to cover the appalling state of Quebec's finances. Showing that the provincial public debt, having been $150,000,000 when the Union Nationale took over, was now at least $286,000,000, they made no specific charges but cleverly asked: "Where has it gone?" The Duplessis campaign promises began to get vague. Then the Federal Government came out against him: the three Quebec Liberals in the King Cabinet threatened to resign if he won, and spectacular Minister of Justice Ernest Lapointe, who might...
...Finnish public had not yet been told in detail the Russian demands, but nobody had much difficulty in guessing that they exceeded the Finnish idea of independence and neutrality. The political atmosphere indicated that a major national crisis was at hand and that this would probably be the tell-tale week. Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, in a big patriotic rally, said that a "period of nerve-testing" was at hand. "The time is difficult," Press Chief Urho Toivola admitted. "We feel our freedom and independence are threatened." Early this week 300 Finns gathered outside the Helsinki Hotel at which...
...expense. ... He shall have the right to buy or sell. ... A man, unless he is duly certified as mentally deficient, shall not be imprisoned for a longer period than three weeks without being charged with a definite offense against the law nor for more than three months without a public trial. . . . No man shall be subjected to any sort of mutilation or sterilization except with his own deliberate consent. ... He shall not be subjected to imprisonment with such an excess of silence, noise, light or darkness ars to cause mental suffering. ... He shall not be forcibly fed nor prevented from...
...regime of President Robert M. Hutchins, football has been de-emphasized, its teams play like scrubs (154 points have been scored against them in four games this season) and its alumni bow their heads on Saturday nights. "We are a big joke in the eyes of the American public," wailed the student Daily Maroon last week...