Word: crime
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SINS OF THE FATHERS: A STUDY OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADERS, 1441-1807, by James Pope-Hennessy. From its origins on the 15th century African Gold Coast to the Abolition Act of 1807, the author documents the vast complex of international crime that sold people for profit...
Final Victory. Although the Senate version excused loans with less than $10 interest, the House put them back in the bill, because small loans are the ones that most often soak the poor. A Republican amendment even made loan sharking a federal crime worth a max imum 25-year prison term. The House demonstrated its greatest solicitude for consumers, however, in an amendment to guard the first $30 of any paycheck from garnishment actions, in which creditors sue employers for part of a debtor's salary. Garnishments were limited to 10% of anything over $30, and employers were barred...
...tame talkathon is directed against a civil rights bill that would make it a federal crime to commit violence-including murder-against members of racial and religious minorities trying to exercise their civil rights. The bill, already approved by the House, was the Senate's "pending business" when the current session opened. With teams of Southern Senators sharing the speaking, rarely heard by more than one or two colleagues, the bill is still pending...
...broad goals. He promised to spell out later his own "ways and means" of bringing the war "to a quicker conclusion." In Concord, where Nixon gave his first major speech of the campaign, he held L.B.J. to account not only for failure to end the war, but for crime, racial tensions and economic problems as well. "I don't think America can afford four more years of Lyndon Johnson in the White House," he said...
...days are no longer limited to such lofty matters as improving the curriculum or such necessary deeds as raising funds. Not with students and drugs to worry about. Last week President John Toll of S.U.N.Y.'s Stony Brook campus ruefully told a joint New York legislative committee on crime that "I've probably talked more about this than any other single topic since I've been president...