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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mars for a consideration. In 1490 a city vicar reported to the Vatican that Rome's prostitutes numbered more than "6,800, not even counting those who live in concubinage and those who, not publicly but in secret, maintain five or six women in their houses." Sixtus V (1585-90) wanted to abolish prostitution, but he was dissuaded by Rome's aldermen, who argued that expulsion of all the city's prostitutes and pimps would cut the population clean in half...
...quyet nhat dinh rang nhung nguoi thiêt mênh o dây se không phai là nhung nguoi dã chet vô ích . . ." With this stirring Vietnamese rendition of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (". . . we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . . ."), the U.S. State Department this week got ready to launch a new kind of cold war against Communism in the Far East-propaganda by the comic-book method...
...next problem is to find another $12.5 million to expand his newsprint-making. He thinks that the future of the economically backward South lies in such new industries. Says he: "Sweden plants timber on land that costs $100 an acre [v. Texas timberland costing $75 an acre], and they do it economically. But that land won't grow a third of the timber we can grow here in the South...
...lawyers also referred to Athanasaw v. US (Florida, 1913): "Procuring or aiding the interstate transportation of a girl for the purposes of employing her under such surroundings as tend to induce her to give herself up to a condition of debauchery . . . constitutes the offence denounced...
...CRIMSON's complicity in such after-efforts, the brief cited Montgomery v. US (Wyoming, 1915): "In a prosecution for transporting women in interstate commerce for immoral purposes, a copy of a telegram sent by the accused and found in the files of the receiving office was held permissible" as evidence...