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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jungled Orator | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Second Degree for Third Degree | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...potatoes in the A. F. of L. patch of jealous craft unions. First Federation gun was fired last week when the Cleveland heads of the Plumbers', Machinists', Electrical Workers' and Bricklayers' unions sent Fisher Superintendent Scafe a joint letter denouncing U. A. W. as an "outlaw'' union, demanding that the struck plant be reopened. Next day the big guns opened up. signaling the start of long-awaited open warfare between A. F. of L. and C. I. O. With four of A. F. of L.'s vice presidents among them, the national chiefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Automobile Armageddon | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...theologically possible to postulate a just war. But just as this has been overlooked by those who look to the Papacy to stop another world conflagration, so it would be of no weight in preventing the Catholic Church from cracking down on any belligerent. A great Pope could outlaw any nation or nations...

Author: By Whang Poo, | Title: Off Key | 1/6/1937 | See Source »

...lost their livelihoods when Depression and the rise of new fuels shut down most anthracite collieries. It would be naive to suppose that the ambitious young Governor has been unaware of the political and civil dynamite represented by the bootleggers and the citizenry whose prosperity rests on their outlaw profits. At his side last week stumped the "King of the Bootleggers," 33-year-old Earl Humphrey, who claims 15.000 'leggers in his Independent Miners & Truckers Association. A slim, shrewd, explosive Welshman who lost a leg in a mine accident, 'Legger Humphrey cried: "We will welcome any impartial investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COAL: Anarchy Explored | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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