Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME deserves congratulations for giving the facts of the Duck Hill lynchings simply and dispassionately. Many biased Northern journals will jump at hasty conclusions anent this lawless act, falling into the common error of generalizing from too few cases...
...makers of boyish fun dissent from such public discipline, let them reflect for a moment upon their own private situation. University students today live in a time of serious economic unrest, not to say social crisis. Lawless action has been rife in many an industrial quarter. There exists a threat, both overt and implied, to the whole American order of education, technology, law, business and industry, in which the youth of America's colleges hope to take future places of leadership, or at least of steady and gainful employment...
...Hoffman let out a headline-making blast aimed at the C. I. O.: "A labor union has no more right to take possession of a factory than a band of gangsters has to take possession of a bank. ... To the citizens of New Jersey I promise-and to lawless organizations I give warning-that, if necessary, the entire resources of the State will be called into action to preserve the rights, liberties and property of its citizens...
Devoid of the usual superfluity of spectacle which characterizes the great majority of DeMilfe flascos, the picture is built around the background of the lawless and bloody period of American history when each move to the westward was greeted by wholesome bloodshed and torture from the Indians. Treachery on the part of eastern gun manufactures who send large shipments of a new and improved model of rifle to the Indians, leads to the great action scene where trick photography has achieved the most effective moving attack we have seen in years...
...backed down on his earlier insistence that all G. M. bargaining must be by individual plants, offered to treat with the Union nationally on matters of "general corporate policy." But he would not do that unless U. A. W. should first withdraw its sit-downers, whom he denounced as lawless trespassers, from the Corporation's plants. With the strikers in possession, G. M. could not send strikebreakers into its plants or remove vital dies and machinery for use in other plants without provoking violence. Hugging this advantage, General Martin refused to call out his sit-downers until...