Word: lenient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chambers of Commerce told the Northern mill operators about cheap, unorganized white labor in the South, abundant water power, lenient mill laws (the 72-hour week, night work for women and children), special tax exemptions, proximity to the textile industry's raw material, King Cotton. Mill after mill closed in New England to reopen in the Piedmont section of the Carolinas. The labor was new, but the proprietors were mostly the same...
...Works. That prisons are too pleasant, and justice too lenient, he thought years ago when he wrote his first full-length thriller, The Four Just Men. He thinks so still, and releases this month The Three Just Men-the survivors of his eccentric millionaire quartet who administered justice when the law failed. A labyrinthine maze of blood and thunder, his latest concoction works itself up to a grand finale with airplanes training guns on a London riverfront den of vice, and deadly snakes slithering across the floor toward a lovely victim. That she was heiress to a gold-mine...
...President further complained that the Commission had yearly asked for repeal of the law requiring it to prepare plans for railroad consolidation. He was also skeptical about the Commission's ability to evaluate the railroads, a problem before it since 1906. But he was inclined to be lenient in this regard, feeling that such valuation is impossible and would cost millions & millions to bring anywhere near completion...
...municipalities. Fourth, to reform the notoriously corrupt and unscrupulous Police, Gendarmerie and Secret Service. Fifth, to reconstruct the nation economically, providing broad measures of agricultural and industrial assistance. Sixth, to reverse the Bratiano policy of shutting out foreign capital, and rather welcome "peaceful penetration" of Rumania under appropriate and lenient restrictions...
That there is general truth in all this no one familiar with the run of college newspapers will deny. Critics are inclined to take a lenient view of the causes; some say that the demands of academic work and the difficulty of producing thoughtful, readable editorials day after day are responsible, and others that the lack of constructive work is due to the effort to make good reading matter at the expense of common sense and often of dignity...