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...offender is not insured, Judge Gitelman imposes a fine of $75 (which allows enough leeway to cover public liability insurance for personal injury and property damage on any car) and gives the offender the choice of paying the fine, surrendering his driving license for 60 days, or suspending as much of the fine as will pay for the minimum public liability policy, which must be kept in force for one year. Upon presentation of the receipted bill for the insurance the fine is reduced by the amount of the premium. If the balance of the fine seems too large, Judge...
...mailed fist. He insisted that civilian ministers resign their party affiliations before entering his Cabinet, thus ousting completely from the conduct of Japanese affairs the Empire's two great political parties, the Minseito (majority) and Seiyukal (minority). His second high-handed act was to get the Emperor to suspend the Diet throughout last fortnight...
...October 1871, the legendary Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over a lantern in the city of Chicago and caused the great $200,000,000 fire. In the next few months 68 U. S. insurance companies failed and 81 were forced to suspend business outside their own States. To pay off claims against it of $529,365 required not only every cent of Fireman's Fund capital but an assessment on its stockholders. Chairman Levison likes to boast of this as the first time the company went broke and yet survived. The second time was after...
...cocoa. Placed by Hershey Chocolate Corp. and amounting to nearly $6,000,000, the order brought to a sharp halt a selling swirl which had carried down the price of cocoa nearly 25% within a fortnight and forced the Exchange at one point to suspend trading. The Hershey bid, slightly under the market, was not filled, but coming from the world's largest cocoa buyer the gesture was enough...
...himself up to a typical Japanese nervous frenzy, screamed, "I will kill myself by hara-kiri if it can be proved that the Army and the Cabinet are not hand-in-glove!" Riotously the session adjourned. To the Imperial Palace rushed Premier Koki Hirota, advised bespectacled Emperor Hirohito to suspend Parliament for two days. But War Minister Terauchi's blood was at boiling point. He demanded that the Cabinet advise the Emperor to dissolve the Diet and order fresh elections. He relied on the fact that he and Navy Minister Admiral Osami Nagano are answerable ultimately only...