Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words made a sound to the eyes, most people's do not") he introduced Ernest Hemingway to her. Back in the U. S., he wrote for the New Yorker, until last year was its book reviewer. Meantime he had married Sculptress Elsa Kirpal, written a best-seller (The Outlaw Years), and begun to build with his own hands his own house near Brewster. N. Y. Tall, redhaired, slow moving, he likes to read dictionaries and trade journals, spends whole afternoons throwing an ice-pick at a target on a barn door...
Would the United States join in such a boycott? The American Federation of Labor has already proclaimed a boycott against Hitlerism and while the provisions of the Kellogg Pact do not specify what measures shall be taken against an outlaw nation it cannot be forgotten that Ambassador Davis, speaking for the President of the United States at the outset of the Geneva Conference, indicated clearly that America would not side with the aggressor in any conflict...
...little ($10-$11 per week), work them too long (40 hours per week). Even the President of the U. S. last May had pointed a damning finger at them for using children in their mills. Administrator Johnson bluntly suggested that it might be a good thing specifically to outlaw child labor in the cotton code. At first the manufacturers quibbled on the ground that their minimum wage proposal would make child employment uneconomic. But that night they got together in an emergency meeting, voted to put into their code such a clause. Next day at the hearing their spokesman announced...
...that any pilot taking part in an unsanctioned meet would be barred from sanctioned meets for from one to three years, depending on the amount of prize money involved. A few rebels defied the N. A. A. order, taxied to the starting line at the Chicago Tribune's outlaw meet last week. But most of the famed speed pilots turned to Los Angeles if only for two reasons: the National meet had $50,000 prize money, compared to Chicago's $20,000; and it left them qualified to compete for more prize money at Chicago in September...
...Bryn Mawr, Secretary of Labor Perkins predicted the Recovery Act would "outlaw the sweatshop...