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...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...
Forthwith, Major General Charles Dasher, the U.S. commandant in Berlin, called on the Soviet commandant. Major General P. T. Dibrova, to protest the Volkspolizei's "lawless . . . ruffianism," and to say that of all the incidents in recent years, "I consider this the most serious." Dibrova replied that he could not accept the protest. Reason: East Germany is a sovereign state now; East Berlin is its capital, and no longer a Russian-occupied sector. Dibrova's statement was dutifully echoed by the East German official Communist newspaper Neues Deutschland, which condemned the West for taking refuge behind "nonexistent four...
...second speech, made six weeks ago, was called "Socialist Transformation of Private Industry and Commerce." It still has not been made public, but its tenor can be judged by a sudden spate of propaganda on the evils of free enterprise. Nanking's Hsinhua Daily took aim at the "lawless bourgeoisie" for using "sugarcoated bullets" in its "attack against the working class." Apparently the remaining shop owners, who are forbidden to close up their businesses while the government exacts a confiscatory tax on all their sales, are guilty of all manner of capitalistic vices. Sample sugar-coated bullet: "evilly increasing...
...argument about U.N. Charter details, Roosevelt and Stalin put the emphasis on the big power approach, leaving it for Churchill, the "imperialist," to defend, sometimes warmly, sometimes cynically, the rights of small nations before the law. Russian objections to U.S. voting-procedure sections of the draft charter foreshadowed the lawless future course of Communist policy; but all arguments over the charter came back to the familiar door, the necessity of total Big Three cooperation and agreement...