Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real trouble-the great inexplicable crime of the Americans-is that they really are better than us Europeans. I don't say more intelligent. Neither would I say that the Americans are more cultured, capable, refined or courageous. I only say that they are better intentioned, ready to sacrifice the individual for the common good, more candid, more trustful of others and more ready than we are to see the good rather than the bad side of things...
...enough, and certainly, 33% is not." But many another judge and businessman have disagreed. The confusion over bigness and monopoly started in 1890 with the Sherman Act, the forerunner of all antitrust legislation. Although the act clearly stated that any person "who shall monopolize" is guilty of a crime, it failed to define monopoly. Thus every merger in the early trustbusting days was a calculated risk. Industry breathed easier after the Supreme Court in 1911 adopted the flexible "rule of reason," which held that only "unreasonable restraints on commerce" violated the Sherman Act. The question was further clarified when...
...There seem to be two main themes of the Republican campaign for Congress this year," said Stevenson. "One is to elect a Republican Congress to do what they couldn't do-:with a Republican Congress. And the other is, curiously enough, a 1952 model-:crime, corruption, controls and Korea...
Alvina Page, 33, a waitress, was in the Julius Marks Sanatorium at Lexington, Ky. when a tough new state law went into effect, making it a crime to expose others to communicable tuberculosis. This did not stop Alvina Page. Though she had been under streptomycin treatment for communicable TB in both lungs, she walked out of the institution against the doctors' advice, went home to her husband and two children...
Until now the Soviets have loudly advocated an immediate outlawing of atomic weapons and a general agreement that would make war a moral crime. Like the ill-fated Kellog Briand pact of the 'twenties, this scheme gave no guarantee of enforcement, and even if carried out, would have left Russia with a decisive advantage in conventional weapons. The plan also dodged the touchy problem of general disarmament. While the current proposal does remove some of the United States' objections, there remain many pitfalls in Russia's two stage plan for arms reduction...