Word: outlawful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senators strolled wearily out to the cloakrooms, strolled back in again at the double clang of the quorum bell, while Missouri's tireless Republican Forrest Donnell droned through his exhaustive "introduction" to the bill to outlaw portal-to-portal pay suits, kept the floor for the better part of three days. Grumbled one Senator: "We ought to meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and let Donnell meet on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday...
...Stakes. Most controversial measure in the Dewey program was a bill designed to outlaw strikes by public employees. Under the bill, which at week's end was awaiting the Governor's signature, any public employee who stayed out on strike would be summarily dismissed; if rehired-on his claim, for instance, that pickets had kept him away from work-he could get no pay increase for three years...
There it is. Gromyko is not talking about procedural technicalities, although he still tosses around glittering dust in the form of proposals to "outlaw" The Bomb (a la Kellogg-Briand...
...distribution delay: 1) labor troubles have delayed Technicolor processing; 2) difficulties with United Artists have forced Mr. Selznick to set up his own distribution machinery (Selznick Releasing Organization) overnight; 3) Duel has raised more eyebrows and run into more censorship trouble than any other movie since The Outlaw (TIME, June...
Until now, the leaders of groups threatened by Communist infiltration have at least had the comfort of knowing who was and who was not a CP member, and could with some acuity predicate their course of action on this knowledge. The proposal to outlaw the Communist Party would only make it increasingly difficult--or impossible--to deal with this most difficult facet of the problem...