Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Longshoreman Ryan is a lethargic conservative who considers Harry Bridges a Red, resents losing to him the leadership of Pacific Longshoremen. Last week President Ryan bluntly refused to call out his Atlantic longshoremen in a sympathy strike. Last spring Seaman Curran was the leader of the "outlaw" seamen's strike in New York Harbor which failed to win higher wages but caused serious harbor hubbub for three months (TIME, May 25 et seq.). Last week 1,000 members of his insurgent Seamen's Defense Committee voted a strike in Manhattan, delayed several ships from sailing. Night later...
...professorial prose. But the great story of Mate Fletcher Christian's attack on his captain, the subsequent travels of Bligh, the mutineers, the vessels searching for the Bounty, appears all the more astonishing when supported by charts of the voyages, detailed records of the fate of each outlaw, and accounts of the state of contemporary knowledge of the geography of the South Seas...
Chiang's master stroke had been to keep bargaining with the Southerners until after his Nationalist Central Executive Committee had met in Nanking. There last fortnight, with an appearance of democratic, parliamentary unanimity, they were forced by Chiang to outlaw the South's front man, General Chen Chi-tang, popular, slow-witted Big Boss of Canton. Meanwhile Chiang had found the weak link in Chen's army of 500,000 men-a subsidiary war lord in immediate command of Chen's shock troops of the First Kwangtung Army. This traitorous officer was coaxed to Nanking, appointed...
...went his way, dodging the police, smacking other hard cases when they asked for it, gradually adding to his flocks until he was regarded as a man of property. But by then law & order had begun to move into the interior; property claims had to be legally recorded. Outlaw Jimmy could not safely show his face in a town. By being an outlaw he missed the chance of escorting a group of Indians to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. He was pushed farther & farther up into the mountains...
...chance and went off with Juana. After she had borne him several children he did what he could to legalize her position by marrying her. And he finally risked an appearance in town, got his claim to his own lands recorded. He became a respectable, retired, sheep-ranching outlaw. By the time the Childses met her, Juana's earlier charms had faded and thickened; she seemed to think that, as far as women were concerned, Jimmy was still a somewhat hard case...