Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quash one indictment against Mr. Freed--inciting, that is--and that same Judge backed away from ruling on a second charge that Mr. Freed, who brings today's hits, yesterday's happiness and tomorrow's hopes to millions on his world-famous radio show, violated a Massachusetts anti-anarchy law. A few women and children, about 20 in all, were stabbed and beaten following a performance by some of the greatest stars of '58, but these women and children were of course the sacrifice the few must pay in order to ensure the welfare of the many, us. If some...
...visit of rock 'n roll artists under the wing of Mr. Freed was one of the greatest nights of all spring, even if the law doesn't think so. Mr. Freed defends clean thoughts and forthright action, is a champion of keen teens throughout the land, and knows what is good for today's youth and what is not. Just where do you think those kids would have been if they hadn't been rocking at Mr. Freed's show? Out hanging on street corners thinking unclean thoughts, etc., that's where...
...Freed has been treated as though he were a criminal or something by the alleged law of the land, and notice we say alleged. It's time for American teen opinion to make itself heard in the resounding crescendo tones that are our birth-right. You can be sure that all over the nation and up in Canada, and in fact Europe, teens will be in spirit walking into that court room with Alan Freed, ready to face the music as it were and holding our heads high too. Of course loyal local teens will show...
...October 7, General Ayub and President Iskander Mirza deposed Premier Firoz Khan Noon, abolished the constitution, suspended legislatures and political parties, declared martial law, and took over the government of Pakistan. Acting barely four months before Pakistan's first nation-wide elections were to take place, they accomplished the revolution without bloodshed or even, as General Ayub observed, "head knocking...
...National Retail Merchants Association) want to end are the phony price-cuts. The merchants, many of whom have prodded the FTC to get tougher, feel that if they do not voluntarily police their industry, Congress will step in and do it for them-just as the Monroney law outlawed phony price-packing by auto dealers...