Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is a clause in the Constitution of the United States which requires equal protection of the laws. Last night the police ticketed only the students' cars and other out-of-state cars. I have never heard of such inequitable, such lawless, enforcement of the law. I am a Harvard Law School student, I am a law-abiding American. Louis Altman...
Unfortunately, A House on the Rhine is termite-ridden with bygone clichés ("Don't bring her into this vile business. She's made of other clay"). But Author Faviell's dramatic documentation of the lawless legacy of the war and "the clash of old and new values in the mind of young Germany has the authority of her seven years of on-the-spot observation as the wife of a British official. Read simply as social prophecy, this novel disturbs with the suggestion that the seeds of a whole generation may already have been planted...
...last week, Georgia's Walter F. George read a manifesto signed by 82 Southern Representatives and 19 Southern Senators. It pledged the signers to exert "all lawful means" toward reversing the Supreme Court's desegregation decision, and it appealed to Southerners "to scrupulously refrain from disorder and lawless acts...
...word "scofflaw" was invented in 1924 after Delcevare King, an ardent prohibitionist of Quincy, Mass, offered a prize of $200 for the best word to apply to "the lawless drinker to stab awake his conscience." Submitted by both Henry Irving Shaw of Shawsheen Village, Mass, and Miss Kate L. Butler of Dorchester, Mass, "scofflaw" was adjudged the best of more than 25,000 entries...
...Argument. The next speaker, N.A.M. Board Chairman Charles R. Sligh Jr., minced no words about "What Industry Expects from Organized Labor." As Meany sat stoically, Sligh laced into unions for "irresponsible strikes," and "lawless incidents that bring disgrace and shame to every sincere American." Asked Sligh : "Is it the primary purpose of this organization [A.F.L.-C.I.O.] to seize political control of the country?" Suggesting a five-point code of conduct for labor and management, Sligh called for a return to the open shop and an end to labor's organized political activities...