Word: validation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Revolutionist Vargas is a sturdy Roman Catholic, his new constitution forbids divorce and makes church marriages civilly valid. Because Brazil's toughest political problem is States' rights, it creates a Senate to deal with them. For the rest the new constitution requires a majority of Brazilian nationals on the directorates of Brazilian public utilities, sharply limits immigration, favors land squatters and gives women the vote...
That the killing of "traitors" had been illegal, the Hitler Cabinet tacitly admitted last week by issuing a decree which legalized retroactively all acts of the Chancellor and his subordinates. German jurists assumed that no subsequent non-Hitlerite Government would consider this decree valid, pointed out the value, to Nazi killers, of burning up by cremation the major evidence of their deeds...
...indignation at this sting from Hornet Barthou grew so intense that the Hungarian Government had to assign troops to guard his train as it crossed Hungary. Before leaving Rumania, which he lately induced to recognize Soviet Russia (TIME, June 18), M. Barthou was presented with the first Rumanian passport valid for travel among Bolsheviks, a flattering passport made out to "Louis Barthou, Rumanian citizen" in recognition of honorary citizenship just voted him by the Chamber of Deputies. According to Citizen Barthou of France and Rumania, his two countries are now "sister souls...
...Chinese opium, how would the case stand? Since 1903 the Congress, having the power to do so, has forbidden the importation of opium . . . and made the possession of it, in ordinary hands, a criminal offense. . . . "And so it follows that Public Resolution No. 10 is in my opinion valid, that the gold clause is therefore unenforceable...
...likes to dance and sing. Dodd's Princeton, President Dodds has neither brought nor promised Princeton a New Deal. "I trust the alumni will pardon me," he wrote last autumn, "if at this time I propose no stirring platform of educational policy or radical reform. Princeton accepts as valid some of the current charges against American education and in a quiet and persistent manner she will continue to improve her methods.'' His only major changes thus far have been an extension of the four-course plan by which high-ranking seniors will be freed from all course...