Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contented. It is not prosperous. . . . In Seattle some 650 working people, who are under contract to carry on their daily employment [at Publisher William Randolph Hearst's Post-Intelligencer] and who are anxious to do so, are kept in idleness for days by the disorderly and lawless force of a group of disturbers of the peace of whom the city, the county and the State authorities are in such terror that nothing whatever is done by any one of these to restore and to preserve order. . . ." Next midnight unknown vandals stained the white base of John Jay Hall with...
...strange and flighty career of Upton Sinclair is likely to provide one of its most picturesque footnotes. He is as much a literary oddity and popular favorite as General Lew Wallace, who wrote Ben Hur while Governor of New Mexico, and who was distracted from his romance by the lawless exploits of Billy the Kid. Belonging to that class of writers who, unable to choose between the world of affairs and the literary life, have attempted both and succeeded in neither, Sinclair is known in political circles as a novelist, in literary circles as a politician, whose promise or threat...
...four trains in a few weeks. The biggest haul, however, was only $1,280, to be divided among four men. Bass dodged Rangers and posses for a year, was betrayed by a spy in his gang, pinked while preparing to rob a bank at Round Rock. In his lawless career, the only man for whose death he was responsible was a deputy who fell in the general mêlée when Bass received his mortal wound...
President of the congress was Sir Walter Citrine, once a most trusted British working-class leader whom many now consider foolish for having accepted knighthood at the hands of King George. In an exciting keynote address Sir Walter indicted Fascism as "lawless, aggressive imperialism which recognizes no right but the armed force it commands!" However, Sir Walter said: "It is a delusion to imagine that the Labor movement is opposed to war in all circumstances," ended with a stirring battle cry for the League of Nations' friends to fight...
...Catholic Prefect Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands to send him to a leper colony 50 miles away, the name of Molokai meant nothing to the outside world. Molokai is an island to which the Hawaiian Government had exiled all its lepers after a frightful outbreak of the disease, a lawless chaos whose 800 foul inhabitants lived a slow death in huts, with only one another's company and the sweet intoxicating juice of the ki tree for distraction. Father Damien changed that, and in so doing made himself and Molokai famed...