Word: punished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution to: 1) raise the Premier who is now primus inter pares ("first among equals") to explicit leadership of his Ministers; 2) empower the President, one year or more after election of the Chamber, to dissolve it without the consent of the Senate; 3) empower the Government to punish strikes within the career ranks of French civil servants by dismissal; 4) provide that in case the Chamber fails to pass the new budget by Jan. 1, a chronic failure in France, the Government may carry on for three months under an automatic extension of the old budget...
...Government believes that a corporation has, in a given year, laid up a bigger surplus than it "reasonably" needs, simply to dodge taxes, it may punish the concern by a penalty of 25% to 35% on its net income for the year. Last week the Treasury revealed that it had levied such penalties on some 100 U. S. corporations. Prime targets on its lists were personal holding companies. Most famed was Fisher & Co.. holding company of Detroit's six Fisher brothers (automobile bodies), down for $17,199,797 for alleged evasions in 1929 and 1930. Others and penalties...
...divorce laws, one for England, one for Ireland, one for Scotland. Under English law their only recourse is for him to fake an act of adultery, then let his wife's lawyer get the evidence, sue him. (If both John and Mary commit adultery, English law would punish them by never giving either a divorce.) Gritting his teeth, John goes through with it, finding an agency where he can hire a professional corespondent, taking her to a Brighton hotel for a weekend. Everything goes according to legal schedule. But unfortunately for John and Mary, their case comes up before...
...week the Cabinet decreed, effective for the next three months: "The Minister of Economics is empowered to take all measures ... to improve German business or to prevent damage to the nation's economic structure. . . . The measures taken may be contrary to existing law. . . . The Minister of Economics may punish failure to obey his rulings with imprisonment or fines. There is no limit to the size of the fine...
...plan to stop ''hot oil" production in Texas. The Department of Justice had failed to approve the industry's plan for a $10,000,000 oil purchasing pool among 29 companies and Congress had gone home without giving him a law to control and punish companies which produced oil in excess of their quotas. Now he cajoled 38 East Texas refiners representing 87% of the companies of that area into a gasoline stabilization agreement. The refiners promised to abide by his gasoline allocations, to report all transactions, and, above all, to buy no "hot oil." The major...