Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merely the usual legal attack on Big Business management, the milk-trust charges encompassed union activities and ran the gamut from price-fixing to tales of arson, flogging and stench bombings. Chicago was picked as the locale for the trial because these factors made it represent "in extreme form" what the Department of Justice terms a nationwide milk "situation...
...upper hand throughout most of the tiny country. British courts of law ceased to function in all but the larger cities. Effective British government was confined to the boundaries of new Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa. Daily trains to Egypt operated only thrice weekly, and then under armed guard. Arson, murder, wanton destruction made the Holy Land a land of terror, reducing Britain's prestige in the Near East to its lowest point in history...
...rest of the time, their substitute is alcohol. ("What is said about alcohol." begins a prologue, "comes mostly from people who stand in a Platonic relationship to narcotics.") As they pour out their bawdy yarns, their pasts of incest, arson, rape, miscellaneous sadism, the reader grudgingly admits a growing sympathy for the preacher. No scape goat ever had such a gang so unremittingly against...
...Arthur B. Langlie defeated both labor rivals did not help Dave Beck, did not stop the C. I. O. invasion of his domain. Last winter, Dave Beck's Oregon lieutenant, Portland Teamster Al Rosser, and some 100 henchmen were rounded up, indicted for crimes varying from bombing to arson. Last week, Rosser awaited sentence for arson in the burning down of a box factory whose owners refused to sign up with...
Only if the fliers "incite to murder, arson, or treason," can the Young Communists be prosecuted for distributing subversive literature through the mails...