Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colored the news, has misrepresented the facts, and has indulged in wilful, slanderous lies. If there is no way to correct this condition peacefully then I propose to use very heroic methods. . . . The acts of the Kansas City Star and/or expressed in the acts of Governor Woodring, are flagrantly lawless, and are a grave threat to the credit and prosperity of the entire district which the Kansas City Star claims to serve. . . . We were told that it was the purpose [of the Kansas bank commissioner, in trying to prohibit sale of Cities Service stock] to throw our companies into...
Before its assignment was over, it had eight more to hand in: 1) crime causes; 2) crime costs; 3) prisons and probation; 4) police methods; 5) foreign-born crime; 6) lawless law enforcement; 7) juvenile delinquency; 8) deportation of criminal aliens...
...hostile public opinion on Prohibition: 1) Attempts to enforce the Volstead Act as something above the law; 2) Dry demands for "abrogation of the guarantees of liberty and sanctity of the home"; 3) "High-handed methods, shootings and killings . . . public expressions [by Drys] approving killings and promiscuous shootings and lawless raids"; 4) Politics; 5) Popular knowledge that "the wealthy are able to procure pure liquor while those with less means must put up with cheap, crude, deleterious products...
...that American farmers can do more toward increasing game than any other agency by making game a secondary farm crop. Six years of compensating game-wise farmers in Texas, for example, have increased good shooting preserves to 2,500,000 acres. They recommended that the farmer be protected from lawless hunters, be amply rewarded for his work.* Quail, pheasants, Hungarian partridge, rabbits, squirrels all thrive on the farmer's cultivated land. Other game lives better in forests, wildernesses, land which is cheap enough to be maintained as public hunting grounds. The committee advised that public ownership of these lands...
Lawyer Darrow appeared as counsel for Barker and White. He told horrified Judge Lyle he always had been "close to unions," added significantly: "If the authorities wish to harass the lawless they should do it legally. There is no such charge in law as a 'Public Enemy.' The vagrancy law provides for release under $100 bond, yet men are being . . . made to furnish $10,000 bonds...