Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After two and a half months of futile picketing, squabbling with police and bickering with the heads of the International Seamen's Union, the "outlaw" seamen's strike in New York Harbor (TIME, May 25) last week fizzled out in complete defeat for the strikers. Offered a settlement by the Union heads which promised nothing except "no discrimination," the insurgents reluctantly agreed to return to work, give up their demands for a higher wage scale, overtime pay, control of their hiring halls. Most admitted defeat. To save his face, Strikeleader Joseph Curran announced...
...this impasse have matters remained. The strikers, with yells of "Judas!" at the Union heads, have picketed strenuously, tried to prevent ships from sailing, offered to submit to referendum. The Union heads, with yells of "Outlaw!" at the strikers, have successfully found crews for all outbound ships, refused to put the question to a Union referendum. Last week, as both sides stood pat, Leader Curran claimed 4,500 of New York Harbor's 10,000 seamen were behind him. The Union heads put the figure...
Xerxes relates that he had difficulties with some of his subjects who worshipped forbidden gods, but that he "sapped the foundations" of the outlaw temples, restored the cult of the Zoroastrian god Ahuramazda. The Institute's Orientalists took this to mean that Xerxes' father, Darius, who probably heard the preaching of Zoroaster himself, enforced the new religion on unwilling priests and they, at Darius' death, tried to return to their old ways...
...first place I will be in a stronger position to work for the repeal of this un-American legislation if I have signed the oath, than I would be if I were an "outlaw". In the second place, if I were to resign, it would put Harvard in an extremely unpleasant position...
...paradoxical rise and power of organizations like the American Legion he traced to psychological causes, such as the tendency to remember only the pleasant things, and to forget or gloss over the more horrible aspects of war. Further developing this psychological thesis, he said that when attempting to outlaw war, attractions such as escape from domestic and financial difficulties at home, and the breakdown of social conventions should be taken into account...