Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Democrats, Republicans, Sons of the Wild Jackass, Farmer Laborites, at will. On "Calendar Wednesdays," when his colleagues left the clerk of the House to drone away hundreds of petty little bills to keep the folks back home happy, LaGuardia was usually pres-ent to object to the more flagrant bits of logrolling. He made Prohibitionist William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw's life a burden, advocated $150,000,000 enforcement appropriations to make the nation rebel against Prohibition. In 1919, on a Republican ticket with Socialist backing, he was elected President of New York's Board of Aldermen...
There is great good humor and nonchalance in the way Raoul Walsh directed The Bowery. It is a gay cartoon of a place and a period, as flagrant as a copy of the Police Gazette and as forthright as a set of brass knuckles. Good shot: a terrific fight with ashcans, fists, brickbats, blackjacks, between Chuck Connors' fire company and Steve Brodie's, while the hopeless Chinese in a burning tenement squeal for help...
...suppression of flagrant, fundamental crime is an important part of the New Deal. . . . What have I to say by way of practical suggestion? Apprehend the kidnappers, catch the racketeers and this reign of terrorism will cease. How? Federalize the police forces of America! Every U. S. marshal, every State and county prosecuting attorney, every sheriff and his deputy, every State police officer would hold a commission from the Federal Government and be a unit under one directing head. . . . The militia of every State stands behind this federalized force. It would be essential that the direction of this plan be centralized...
...Augustus Lindbergh Jr. changed the law of the land. Because abduction across a state line is now a Federal offense (punishable one year to life imprisonment), the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation can and does now enter a kidnapping case at once. Last week's flagrant cases set Attorney General Cummings to pondering further Federal legislative weapons. Joseph B. Keenan, fat and fierce Cleveland prosecutor, was made special assistant to the Attorney General for the suppression of rackets. Publicly Assistant Keenan advised : "Upon receipt of a threatening letter or the disappearance of a relative or friend...
...Philadelphia and New York Philharmonic no longer have time or money to visit. The New York Orchestra has no wealthy subsidizers. No one will tell Sokoloff what music he may or may not play. A player may be dismissed only when his colleagues vote him out for incompetence or flagrant immorality...