Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the hens were frightened. Anarchist collectivizers eyed the farm jealously once, but Cannaday remained unintimidated. Believer in the profit system, respecter of the law of supply & demand, he continued to sell his wares to hungry Madrileños, paying little heed to Leftist Spain's campaign to outlaw profiteering, fix prices...
...Nyon. And even in the patrolled lanes, only those submarines attacking contrary to the 1930 London Treaty rules-i. e., those which do not rise to the surface, display their true flag and give a freighter's crew time to take to the boats-would be counted outlaw. "Russia," snorted Comrade Litvinoff just before Russia signed, "expected something strong and vigorous...
Allied is fighting block-booking by both national and State legislation. Before Congress in Washington is the Neely-Pettengill bill which outlaws block-booking. Last year the bill stuck in committee. This year Lawyer Abram Fern Myers, onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, is trying to drive it through. Meanwhile Al Steffes is leading the drive for State legislation to outlaw block-booking and to divorce theatre ownership from producers and distributors. Such bills of divorcement bogged down in Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska and Illinois. One did pass in North Dakota, where it goes into effect in a year...
...method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story mood of bourgeois gentlemen? Easy: jail 'em and let the Supreme Court of the U. S. outlaw their nonsense." The press so disgusted him that he confined his reading to the sports page: "You've got to have some certainties at breakfast. You've got to have some English written in a style living, appropriate, honest.'' In U. S. vulgarity he saw a glimmer...
Said the judge: "The third degree . . . is an instrument which if it exists at all in this country exists only as an outlaw. . . . Those who engage in such practices must and should receive punishment...