Word: sectionalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is an extremely large section of the British public that would like to see the Duke of Windsor at least officially recognized, or preferably welcomed home to a position of something better than degradation...
Businessmen now generally accept-with reservations-the Securities Act as a wholesome reform. But in 1933 many fought it bitterly, arguing that no one could take the risk of issuing securities because Section 11 of the Act provides that any purchaser of securities can recover damages from the issuers for subsequent losses if misrepresentations or omissions were made in the official registration statement. In six years of the Act's operations this bugaboo failed to materialize. Last week the dreaded event took place for the first time...
Until this week courts had held that Article III-Section 1 of the Constitution* meant the Federal Government could not tax its judges' salaries. The inference was that Congress might sway justice by slapping taxes on its dispensers. That interpretation, acid-tongued Justice Felix Frankfurter in effect ruled this week, is so much tommyrot...
...were for administrative and court "reforms." Just before going on leave, U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew handed Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita the U. S. reply. It was a strong rejection of all Japanese demands. The U. S. even suggested that the Japanese, who have governed a small section of the Settlement as their own since the war and who have two seats of the 14 on the Settlement's Municipal Council, retire from their section of the International Settlement altogether. Britain soon followed suit, France was expected to send a similar answer...
...days ago in Lima's maternity hospital, surrounded by an audience of 35 Peruvian doctors, Surgeon Lozada performed a Caesarean section on 70-lb. Lina, brought forth a lusty, six-pound baby boy. But bewildered Lina would have nothing to do with her child, could not comprehend that he belonged to her. Silent and uncommunicative, she lay on her hospital bed fondling a shiny, new doll, fingering with reverence a holy picture pinned on her pillow...