Word: code
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 1925 until last June Charles Irvin Dawson was Federal Judge in the Western District of Kentucky. From that bench he held unconstitutional: 1) Federal condamnation of land for slum clearance, 2) the Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act, 3) the NRA Coal Code. Then he resigned, because "I have been greatly disturbed by the tendency of Congress in the last three years to override all Constitutional limitations in the enactment of so-called New Deal legislation. . . . One of the impelling motives that prompted me to quit the bench was the deep-seated conviction that in the next few years I would...
Three hundred and twenty-five sacred books from Thibet have arrived at the Yenching Institute which form the Kanjur-Tanjur, an important part of the Buddhist code; the Tanjur is composed partly of commentaries and later texts about Buddha's instructions, while the elder Kanjur sets forth his commands...
Because the tax is not payable until Jan. 2, Justice Jesse C. Adkins refused President Carter a temporary injunction against forced code compliance, promised decision on his application for a permanent injunction within ten days. Justice Adkins gave the coal man a temporary injunction restraining his company from complying voluntarily with the code. President Carter wanted that because his stockholders, who are also members of his family, wanted to sign up without any legal quibbling...
When the new tax took effect last week only 1,873 of the 15,000 U. S. bituminous coal producers had signed the code but they accounted for almost one half the nation's annual output. The National Bituminous Coal Commission gave laggards a vigorous prod by promising strict enforcement of the Act's Section 14, which prohibits the purchase of codeless coal not only by the Government but by all private agencies serving the Government, such as PWA contractors and mail-carrying railroads...
...motoring experiences Lady Alice has never had an accident, although she admits that she has had several narrow escapes. She is proud of the fact that she knows many of the clauses in the new Highway Code off by heart...