Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nations of the world are faced with the issue of determining whether relations shall be characterized by international anarchy and lawlessness or by principles of fair play, justice and order under law. No nation and no government can avoid the issue; neither can any nation avoid participation, willing or not, in the responsibility of determining which course of action shall prevail...
...Although Maryland's Democrats have thrice tried to disfranchise Negroes by law, the majority of the 30% who vote went Democratic in 1936, shepherded by their late boss, black Saloonkeeper Tom Smith, who was a great & good political friend of Democratic Senator Millard Tydings. As Democrats they were freely invited to enter this week's primary to smear Senator Tydings. Because the Senator still had an inner track with Boss Smith's heirs, he was one purgee who did not protest...
...gets hot, as white-crested Ed Crump has voted them for years in Memphis. Moreover, the poll tax means less to Southern Negroes since their economic status is being raised by Relief and farm subsidy funds. When their economic and social position is further bulwarked by the Wage-Hour law and C.I.O.'s bicolor unionization, the days of lily-white politics in the South may be numbered...
Purgee-designate was the man who has represented the Gashouse in Congress for 15 of his 52 years, squarejawed, redheaded, truculent Representative John Joseph O'Connor. A Massachusetts Irishman who has two blood ties with the New Deal (his younger brother Basil was Franklin Roosevelt's law partner and Janizary Thomas Corcoran is his fourth cousin), Tammany's O'Connor has been only an off & on New Dealer. He has been off more than on since the White House helped Texas' Sam Rayburn beat him for the House Leadership, a situation not unlike that created...
...never practiced law in St. Louis, and he became, in his own eyes at least, a failure. He also became the most puzzling and complex of American men of letters-a politician who was also an expert in medieval architecture, a novelist who wrote under a pseudonym and accused his friends of writing his books, a leading historian who announced flatly that histories were all lies, an amateur geologist, economist, photographer and naturalist, and an author whose two masterpieces were published despite his strenuous efforts to suppress them...