Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago WQXR's power was stepped up to 10,000 watts-the second boost within a year. Behind each increase is the desire of WQXR's founder and president, smallish, paunchy, deep-voiced John Vincent Lawless Hogan, to broadcast good music with maximum accuracy...
...Three-fourths of all Negro doctors who have qualified as specialists in the U.S. in the last ten years, and many heads of Negro hospitals, are Provident-trained. Among its noted alumni: Dr. John Wesley Lawlah, dean of Howard University College of Medicine; Dermatologist Theodore Kenneth Lawless and Surgeon Ulysses Grant Dailey, now at Provident...
...Paraguay President Higinio Morinigo has been consolidating his power by exiling opposition leaders or sending them to a steaming island in the Paraguay River. Dictator Morinigo cares nothing for constitutional methods of continuismo ; he suspended the Constitution when he seized power last September. But his opposition is also lawless. One exiled Paraguayan is onetime Dictator Rafael Franco, who has been supporting himself manufacturing soap in a small apartment in Montevideo, Uruguay. Last week, through the censor ship that envelops remote Asunción, came reports of a Franquista revolt. Colonel Franco's brother Laconich hopped a plane from Montevideo...
...accustomed to taking its crime with almost morbid seriousness. Citizens read about it, brood about it, usually come to the moody conclusion that the U. S. is a violent, lawless, desperate land, with a mighty black record compared to other nations. With this belief foreigners have been prompt to agree. But to many a reader of Valtin's real-life thriller, it came with a sudden shock of realization that other nations have their mad dogs too. Compared to them, such U. S. gangsters as Al Capone are very small change...
...Attorney General Robert H. Jackson: "[I] have done all [I can] to stop the increasing concentration in this country of great aggregations of other people's money in the hands of lawless, irresponsible and ruthless men like Wendell Willkie...