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...declared to have obstructed "reforms" which the Dictator wishes to have made in the Soviet Criminal Code. Under one of these reforms "any member of a conspiracy will be criminally responsible for the acts of all, even acts of which this conspirator was completely ignorant...
...profitable places to invest their policyholders' money. But real estate is traditionally such a bad investment for life insurance companies- because when cash is needed quickest is just the time real estate is least convertible-that most States have passed laws against it. The 1906 New York Insurance code forbade insurance companies to own any land or buildings that they did not do business in or that they had not acquired through mortgage foreclosures-and these they had to get rid of again within five years. Most other States followed New York. But between 1921 and 1926 when there...
...British code names for Wilson was "Aaron." When Anglo-American relations were strained, British publicists wired Colonel House that they would acquaint British leaders with Aaron's difficulties at home. At the outbreak of the War Aaron's difficulties were certainly immense, and Dr. Tansill's book gives the impression that Colonel House was not the least of them. Proud of his part in drawing up the Federal Reserve Act, House became an amateur financial expert, with the "comfortable conviction that his knowledge . . . was adequate to meet the emergency." In the chaotic situation that developed in international...
...this the American Standards Association retorted that representatives of 14 reputable organizations, including the representative of the National Council on Schoolhouse Construction, had voted for the new code...
...audience sat David Selznick when Jezebel had its Hollywood premiere early this month. As Actress Davis venomously kicked aside convention, twisted the code of Southern chivalry, bit her lips to make them kissable, patted her cheeks with a hairbrush to make them scarlet, the audience glanced toward Producer Selznick to see how he liked these things that smacked of Gone With the Wind. If he let fall any comments, they fell in private...