Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British decision to outlaw the Indian National Congress [TIME, Aug. 17] at a time when no overt act of disobedience had taken place ... is regarded by many as justified. . . . Yet even those who accept this view know in their hearts that there could be no graver disaster to the cause of freedom than what has happened in India and no folly more wicked than the folly which seeks to save India from her enemies through a policy of terrorization endorsed by her friends...
...sore when WLB turned down their demand for a 10?-an-hour increase on the grounds that they were making plenty already and that their pay had already been upped more than 15% since Jan. 1, 1941. Against advice of older workers and the International Brotherhood, they voted an outlaw strike-the first ever called against a WLB decision...
...week's end the committee had agreed on a bill to outlaw broker's commissions on war contracts, try to get back those already paid. The Justice Department was investigating possible violations of any existing laws. And the Navy took a sharp, critical look at officers who had been wined, dined and given presents by brokers who got rich quick on Navy contracts...
Though elected by components of the now dead Popular Front, President Rios has already got tough with labor. While awaiting full powers under the Emergency Bill, he used its threat to outlaw and smash strikes, to clap strike leaders in jail, to intervene in and control trade-union elections. Among the semi-dictatorial powers the new bill grants the President is that of declaring "emergency zones" and a "state of siege." suspending constitutional guarantees and permitting the "militarization" of labor elements...
When the networks won, ASCAP's complexion changed. The Society was forced by the Government to accept a consent decree, calling for a more democratic form of organization; the Supreme Court upheld the power of the States to outlaw ASCAP by barring price-fixing; the networks won hands down in this fight against ASCAP's high-priced terms. No longer a monopoly, it had to scratch for its feed. Its 1,510 members needed new dignity and new leaders. Genial, dictatorial Gene Buck stood for the old regime. Last month, at the annual ASCAP members' meeting...