Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foul. In Pasco, Wash., the State Magistrates Association passed a resolution calling on the legislature to outlaw jail-breaking, which at present is not illegal in Washington...
...when Majority Leader Knowland tried to postpone the final farm-bill vote, and when South Carolina's Olin Johnston tried to attach a civil-service pay raise to California's Santa Maria River project. But in the last minute helter-skelter, it was remarkable that the Communist outlaw bill (see below) was the only piece of political deviltry to be jammed into enactment...
...bill, some headline writers said, outlawed Reds. Others were of the opinion that it outlawed the Communist Party. There was some speculation about what "to outlaw" might mean. Did it mean, as some said, that the Communist Party and/or its members could not sign leases, have bank accounts or sue in court? This kind of outlawry, stripping away all legal protection, is a medieval notion, inconsistent with post-feudal legal concepts and beyond the constitutional power of Congress...
...bill does not "outlaw" Communists in this sense, does it create a new crime-that of being a member of the Communist Party? The answer is no. Any explanation of the bill has to take off from the legal position of Communists prior to the bill's passage...
...Passed a bill to deny Red-led labor unions the NLRB's protection of their collective-bargaining rights. ¶Voted 85-0 to tack onto the Red-led union bill a rider designed to "outlaw" the Communist Party, a proposition opposed by Attorney General Brownell and FBI Director Hoover on the ground that it would drive Communists underground. This surprise move was sprung by Wayne Morse and two Democrats, Minnesota's Humphrey and Massachusetts' Kennedy, as a partisan response to McCarthyite charges that Democrats are soft on Communism. Michigan's Homer Ferguson pointed out that...