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...asked his boss Charles ("The Old Roman") Comiskey for a raise after winning 40 games in two seasons. "Just give me a dollar more than the $4,800 I'm getting," he pleaded. Once more he was beaten; Comiskey refused. So Dickie Kerr took his pride to the outlaw leagues and never again amounted to anything in organized baseball...
...drowsy Government Book Depot, which handles the dreariest of official publications, experienced such a brisk burst of activity. No sooner had the first 500 copies of the central government's Act to Suppress Immoral Traffic arrived than a flood of customers snapped them up. The act, designed to outlaw brothels and subject pimps to severe punishments, was passed in 1956; but Parliament delayed enforcement so that India's prostitutes could find other ways to make a living and state governments would have time (though few bothered) to build "rehabilitation homes." Last week, just after the law finally went...
Between May Day, U.S.S.R., and May Day, U.S.A., lies the difference between those who use laws as instruments for force and those who believe in the force of law to bring order and decency to human endeavor; the difference is one of the outlaw and the lawful. To emphasize that difference, to provide an occasion for national rededication to the rule of law, the President proclaimed...
...Outlaw. In Cleveland, Ernest Denardy, whose driver's license was suspended in January, was back in court-for jaywalking...
Writes Editor Markel: "I don't outlaw Dick Tracy or Li'I Abner, but I insist that a newspaper shall print a goodly amount of information. In the long run, [editors] will discover that they cannot compete with TV in the variety field, and therefore that the future lies in the information area. Too many of them have abdicated this function to the news weeklies and to the silver-screen, gold-plated commentators. They had better move quickly to regain their news standing." Other Markel criticisms: ¶ "Talk about freedom of the press and freedom of information...