Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strikebreaking is big business in California. Fwrm labor contractors, smugglers and ranch foremen, many with ties to the criminal element, make rich profits by breaking strikes.
Thus ended the life of Jesse Walter Bishop, 46, heroin addict and career criminal who committed his first armed robbery at age 15 and passed 22 of his last 27 years behind bars. With similar steadfastness, Bishop had denounced all efforts made on his behalf by civil libertarians to stay...
In the 1960s, under Chief Justice Earl I Warren, the Supreme Court fashioned I a goad for social progress out of two 14th Amendment phrases-due process and equal protection of the laws-with specific application to civil rights and criminal law. Liberals praised the court for championing the rights...
Among the most persistent detractors was Richard Nixon. In his 1968 law-and-order campaign for the presidency, he accused the Supreme Court of ''weakening the peace forces in society and strengthening the criminal forces.'' If elected, he promised, he would fill Supreme Court vacancies with...
Activist in some areas untouched by the Warren Court, like sex discrimination, it has continued to press for school desegregation, tried to strike a balance on reverse discrimination and retrenched slightly on criminal rights. It clearly does not have the moral vision of the Warren Court, particularly in its attitude...