The wine-growing peasants, especially in the cantons of Vaud, Neuchâtel and Valais, together with the powerful pressure group of the hôteliers, succeeded in blocking this tax when it was brought forward in the Swiss Parliament in 1951.

Prudent man rules also require that greater financial and legal responsibility be attached to any imprudent action by corporate officers.

He put out his arms and folded her to his breast. And for a while she lay there sobbing. He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils. His mouth was set as steel.

Artist Archie Rand's iconograpy on thirty-seven themes was declared “kosher” for the Orthodox synagogue by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, the leading halakhic deciser of his time.