Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bootlegger and does not make a report to the authorities has committed a felony and is equally guilty as the person making the sale. . . . Whether it was wise to make hundreds of thousands or even millions of people of the U. S. felons in the eyes of the law is a matter addressed not to this court but to Congress. . . . The wisdom of the law is one thing, the constitutionality is another...
...which, had it occurred in their State, would have set the Wisconsin politicians baying with wildest apprehension. The proposal was to form one gigantic State bank for Nebraska, of which every state bank, now independent, would become a branch linking up the chain. Attorney Thomas Stinson Allen, brother-in-law of the late William Jennings Bryan, representing unidentified Manhattan banking interests, advanced the proposal to the State Government to lift it out of its troubles over the State's Bank Guaranty Fund. To this fund State banks in Nebraska must contribute one tenth of one per cent of their average...
...sent him blank checks for a private consultation. He always refuses, returning the checks blank. Recently the Austrian Government, con- vinced after prolonged investigation that the Pencil Man is no cheat, rebated him two-thirds of certain taxes which he had paid in ignorance of a clause in the law permitting him to claim exemption...
...wolf, not for his daughter Patricia but to give to the Boston Zoo. A nameless, snarling Montana coyote, exhibited by its owner, Fred Smidlap of Lakewood, N. J., was said to be "an unusually interesting pet." In a corner of his own slept a skunk. Because New York State law prohibits the exhibition of cats for more than two successive days, last event of the spectacle was a cat show. From far and near came black, red, cream, chinchilla, silver, smoke and brown toms and tabbies. Judges pulled fur, pried open eyes, thumped sides, tabulated their conclusions. Best...
Died. Harry Hart, 79, president of Hart, Schaffner & Marx (clothing); in Chicago; of pneumonia. In 1872, with his brother Max, he began the firm of Harry Hart & Bro. in Chicago. With a brother-in-law and Marcus Marx, Hart, Abt & Marx was opened seven years later. When Levi Abt withdrew from the concern, a new partner was taken in and the present house established as Hart, Schaffner & Marx. The first year (1887) they did a $550,000 business; last year, a $35,000,000 business. Founder Hart survived his partners. Long interested in educational* and social work...