Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tabulate the citizen and alien population of New York City by blocks as basis for reapportionment for the State Legislature (a blow at Tammany) ; 3)announced that he would favor a law to prevent party officials, government officers and Congressmen from lobbying for government contracts, and also to outlaw professional lobbyists from similar employment...
...beau geste, the customary mellow phrase from that superannuated society of diplomats, but even that has been lacking. The reason may be found in the constitution of the organization itself. At its inception, the right to declare war was expressly reserved for each of its members gathered, ostensibly, to outlaw it. Rampant, nationalisms cannot enter a suicide pact cheerfully unless their pistols are loaded with blank cartridges...
Convicts left behind spotted the handiwork of Clyde Barrow, notorious outlaw-at-large, said he fired the machine gun, suspected the horn was honked by his woman, gun-toting, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker. Next day posses bagged only one flown jailbird. Convict J. B. French, panting a few minutes ahead of prison bloodhounds, ran for refuge into the cabin of a Negro farmer. The Negro covered him with a shotgun, held him until bloodhounds bayed at the door...
...What notorious Southwestern outlaw has a girl who smokes cigars, carries a gun, goes by the name of Suicide...
...States and Russia with the League of Nations, I believe that Russian recognition will have no effect. All nations are gradually drifting away from their affiliation with that body, because they are beginning to find out that the League is not what it is represented to be. It cannot outlaw war and it is becoming generally accepted that the League is merely a political organization established to preserve the status quo of the Treaty of Versailles...