Word: lemuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble with General Electric as the testing ground for the President's hands-off policy is that the strike is as much ideological as economic. The enemy is what the unions call "Boulwarism," a labor-relations strategy unveiled in 1948 by Lemuel R. Boulware, then a G.E. vice president and now retired. Boulwarism is based on two tenets. First, the company should make a "firm, fair" offer at the start of negotiations and refuse to budge from it. Second, the company should engage in vigorous "employee marketing" to sell the merits of its offer...
...Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw's classic, century-old definition, conspiracy is "a combination of two or more persons, by some concerted action, to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish some purpose, not in itself criminal or unlawful, by criminal or unlawful means." The concept of criminal conspiracy is rooted deep in common law; its philosophical underpinning is the premise that two or more men working together are a greater danger to society than an individual plotting alone. Today conspiracy by itself is a crime under federal law and in virtually every state. Ordinarily...
After the 1964 nightrider slaying of Lemuel Penn, a Negro educator from Washington, D.C., a Georgia jury wasted little time acquitting Klansmen Joseph H. Sims and Cecil W. Myers of murder. Despite the verdict, the Justice Department went ahead and built its own case by dusting off an obscure anticonspiracy law dating back to Reconstruction days. Last week, in the small U.S. District Court in Athens, Ga., that law brought Sims and Myers to trial...
...Supreme Court two weeks ago dealt with two notorious 1964 cases-the murder of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Miss., and the slaying of Negro Educator Lemuel Penn in Georgia-in both of which Southern courts had sidetracked attempts to bring the accused to justice. Basing itself on a 19th century anticonspiracy law, the Supreme Court not only ordered these cases tried but hinted that new federal legislation is needed. The Government is ready to oblige. In his State of the Union message President Johnson called for increased authority for federal courts to try "those who murder, attack...
...focus - and the teeth - of those 19th century laws in decisions that dealt with two of the South's most wanton racist slayings: the June 1964 murder of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Miss., and the shotgun killing along a Georgia highway three weeks later of Lemuel Penn, a Washington Negro educator. In both cases, the court reversed rulings by Southern federal-court judges and opened the way for further Justice Department prosecutions...