Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motored, myself and two others, from St. Petersburg to Naples on the west coast, and then across to Miami and from there south to Lower Metacumbe. The section of the glades investigated was that opened by the new Tamiami Trail. The tree hummocks in this region are just like islands in an ocean, and rise in the midst of the grass-covered prairies, as the only spots where the Seminole Indians, who still inhabit this part of Florida, many make their homes in safety from the floods that cover the open prairies with two or three feet of water during...
...pocket veto practice is covered by Section 7, Article 1 of the U. S. Constitution: "If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall...
Bureaucrat Young. Clarence M. Young, Director of the Department of Commerce's air section, who is flying his own plane on a European air inspection junket, reached Berlin last week. There he inspected the great Tempelhof airport, visited the Rohrbach works, heard that the Germans this summer plan to operate air service from Germany to both North and South America...
...misdemeanor. On the other hand if a penalty of more than one year's imprisonment is authorized the crime is a felony and the convicted person is deemed "infamous". This arbitrary classification has been severely criticized. Thus the court in United States V GAAG, (237 FED. 728) referred to Section 335 of the United States Criminal Code providing for this distinction as "barbaric". In United States V Wood (224 FED. 278) it is pointed out that a violation of an insignificant administrative regulation of the Internal Revenue Law will brand the most honorable of men as "infamous...
Last week the Postmaster of Trencsen, a town in the Slovak section of Czechoslovakia, carried to the local Mayor in some alarm a tremendous letter from Siam, emblazoned with the royal arms and addressed to His Excellency the President of Slovakia, Professor Mihalusz. What could this mean? Startled, the Mayor ripped open the envelope, grew pop-eyed as he read. With all the pomp and felicity of Oriental diplomacy, His Majesty King Prajadhipok declared himself graciously and inexpressibly pleased to accord full recognition de facto and de jure to the Sovereign Republic of Slovakia. There is, of course, no such...