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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Psycho-Neurological Institute of Petrograd. In 1910 he entered the School of Law of the University of Petrograd from which he was graduated in 1914. A little later he was awarded the degree of Master of Criminal Law and Procedure, the requirements for which are even more stringent than those for the American Ph.D...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOROKIN COMES TO HARVARD TO HEAD FIELD OF SOCIOLOGY | 10/8/1930 | See Source »

...desire for Money but desire for Power. Power and influence accrue to a worker, man or woman, who holds a managerial position, such as director of a textile factory or designer of bridges and so forth. Graft and corruption, if existent, are certainly well hidden. The most stringent punishments are meted out to the dishonest by the Soviet Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Particularly Happy | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...Stringent Punishments as provided by the Jones Law, while clarifying the legal risks of Prohibition violators, long have been subjects for questioning. Last week, on the appeal of one Frank Ross, who is serving two years in Atlanta under the Jones Act, the Supreme Court began pondering the constitutionality of a law which makes onetime misdemeanors felonies. Defending the law, the Department of Justice argued that it "created no new offense. Its purpose merely was to enlarge the penalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Refinements | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...obvious result of this higher vandalism will necessarily be increasingly stringent regulations concerning taking books from Widener. The unpleasantness is not only confined to depriving many men from reading books assigned in their courses, but the restrictions that will have to be inaugurated will add to the discomfort of all who have to use library books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUST DESSERTS | 5/21/1930 | See Source »

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