Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recalled his early days in Dawson, Ga., where he grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Grandson of a slave and son of a newspaper editor, he had it better than most Southern Negroes. He went north to Amherst where he played varsity football, then took a law degree at Harvard...
After he returned to Georgia to practice law, he was engaged to defend a 19-year-old Communist named Angelo Herndon, who had been arrested for leading an unemployment demonstration. "This case," said Davis, "was the turning point of my whole life. In the course of trying it, I was made the victim with my client of the worst kind of treatment against Negroes. The judge referred to me and my client as 'nigger' and 'darky'* and threatened many times to jail...
From then on Andy Sheridan was always on the wrong side of the law. He had all the physical assets of a good professional killer-the pasty, expressionless face, the coldly squinting stare and a contemptuous disregard for human life. By 1930, he was an accomplished journeyman killer on the staff of mobster Dutch Schultz. In 1938, Boss Joe Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Association (A.F.L.) put Sheridan on his staff of waterfront goons working with another hired hand, John M. ("Cockeye") Dunn...
...mattered not to Trainman Whitney that the new bill was milder-in 27 spots -than Taft-Hartley; Whitney wanted his boys to think that it was really worse. "If this vicious proposal should ever become law," he told his union in its weekly newspaper, "we shall be only one step from Adolf Hitler's form of government...
Fifteen years later the House of Lords hesitantly passed a bill which merely raised the minimum age for climbing-boys to ten. It was 1840 before climbing-boys were legally abolished, and the law was still full of holes a small boy could get through. In 1864, under the sponsorship of the last, great champion of the climbing-boys, Lord Shaftesbury, the regulations were tightened, and in 1875 the practice was finally broken-67 years after Britain had abolished Negro slavery...