Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter WincheH's son-in-law, Bostonian William Lawless, son of a retired streetcar motorman, had his marriage to daughter Waldo annulled after nearly three years of no-marriage...
...became a minor official in the German Ministry of the Interior. Disgusted by the weakness of the Weimar Republic, he joined the Nazis and betrayed government information to them. A specialist in constitutional law, Lammers was responsible for the legislative maze with which the Nazis surrounded their most lawless acts. He created the notorious "People's Courts," "simplified" the judicial system by drafting a decree empowering the Minister of Justice to "deviate from any existing...
...Richmond, Va., litigation brought to light a sentimental bequest which sounded as though it had been copied straight from a Civil War ballad. Valentine Browne Lawless, a soldier killed in Europe in 1944, had left $3,000 to provide "one perfect rose of any color to be sent each Saturday morning to the girl I love very dearly and whom I will love for the rest of my life...
...long-range significance of the Nürnberg trial," Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief U.S. prosecutor of the top Nazis, once said, "lies in the effort to demonstrate ... the supremacy of law over such lawless and catastrophic forces as war. . . ." Had the lesson sunk...
Died. Jeff D. Milton, 85, oldtime, rootin'-shootin' law enforcer of the Wild West; in Tucson, Ariz. During a career that made a Hollywood horse opera seem tame, Milton was a Texas Ranger, deputy sheriff in once-lawless Apache County, Ariz., police chief of El Paso, a one-man Rio Grande border patrol (from El Paso "to hell & gone"). He once went after three train-robbing desperados, wired back: "Send two coffins and one doctor...