Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor, its rights and wrongs, a lively campaign issue in most States, fared well with voters. A.F. of L. and C.I.O. combined to stave off drastic anti-picketing ordinances in California. Oregon. Washington. But Oregon approved a milder initiative proposal to outlaw picketing in jurisdictional disputes, restrict secondary boycotts, regulate union expenditures...
Fourteen years ago Eleanor Getzendaner, a young wrangler who was riding as a jockey at outlaw tracks and country fairs, saw Elmer Gantry when he was a thoroughbred yearling on a southwestern Nebraska ranch. She tried to buy him, failed be cause the price was too high. She kept her eye on him. Few years later, after he had been wintered outdoors in a poor pasture until he was so thin and rough as to be practically valueless, she was able to buy him for a song. She found him amazingly intelligent and adaptable, soon had him trained...
...patent privilege to control the use to which the consumer may put the article after it has been marketed. It is unnecessary to any legitimate exploitation of the patent, and is a vicious practice which the common judgment of the people will condemn and which the Government must outlaw...
...break out, this was good news at the Golden Gate, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, many a lesser Pacific port. Despite stiffened employer resistance and a labor position weakened by inter-union feuds, longshoremen were not quite willing to grant the outright guarantee against outlaw "quickies" which President Almon Roth of the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers Association originally demanded. Instead the Bridges union agreed to punish contract violators by suspension or expulsion, to put disputed cases up to five permanent arbitrators, in no event to stop work while the new peace machinery functions. If, as Almon Roth publicly hopes, seagoing unions...
When the Freethinkers' congress (first to be held in England in 50 years) was announced last April. Lord Glasgow and 70 M. P.s unsuccessfully backed a Blasphemy Bill especially designed to outlaw it. The Home Secretary was petitioned to ban it. Estimates of the amount of Moscow gold backing the "atheists" ranged from 150,000 to 14,000,000 rubles. Arthur Cardinal Hinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, organized a March of Atonement in which 150,000 Catholic men would walk this week from Southwark to Westminster Cathedral. Said he: "The religious leaders of this land cannot be held...