Investigation of So Called "rackets".: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-third Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 74, a Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of the Matter of So Called "rackets" with a View to Their Suppression ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1933 - Crime

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Page 155 - Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
Page 403 - Oh for boyhood's painless play, Sleep that wakes in laughing day, Health that mocks the doctor's rules, Knowledge never learned of schools...
Page 175 - Columbia, he is hereby authorized to cause the Secretary of the Treasury to promulgate such rules and regulations as in his .judgment may be necessary to prevent the spread of such disease from one State or Territory into another...
Page 647 - THE night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Page 232 - ... shall be deposited in or carried by the mails of the United States, or be delivered by any postmaster or letter carrier...
Page 169 - In a trial by jury in a federal court, the judge is not a mere moderator, but is the governor of the trial for the purpose of assuring its proper conduct and of determining questions of law.
Page 169 - Another excellency of this trial is this, that the judge is always present at the time of the evidence given in it. Herein he is able in matters of law, emerging upon the evidence, to direct them ; and also, in matters of fact, to give them...
Page 4 - the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by the wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence or fear, or under color of official right.

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