Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compiled source material. The piece by Richard L. Evans and Kenneth S. Bennion on "The Mormoms" is possibly the best very short history of the early church. James D. Horan in his "The Gunmen" has the good sense to know that the "Wild Bunch" was the fiercest Western outlaw gang and to spend his time relating their story but he makes factual mistakes in the story of this magnificent group, who died under attack by a whole company of Infantry...
...more commonly called "Cops and Robbers." When asked what is responsible for his own interest in the criminal mind, he replies with refreshingly characteristic frankness: "I suppose my primary interest in crime is the sublimation of aggression; to vicariously participate in violence without feeling guilt. Also, of course, the outlaw has as much attractiveness to me as to the rest of American culture." He adds with his engaging smile, "I liked aggressive sports when I was at Stanford: I played soccer, football and coached boxing...
...learn even more quickly." He has waged long and bitter war on cartels. Germany is the fatherland of the cartel, and before World War II, an estimated 2,000 cartel agreements were in force in the Reich. Blocked by old-line businessmen in his first attempt to outlaw cartels in 1950, Erhard tried again, finally got a bill drawn up this year. At the hearings, industrialists who furnished the C.D.U. with much of its funds pleaded that cartels were necessary for times of recession. Erhard leaped from his chair, exploded: "That, gentlemen, is economic humbug." The industrialists suggested interpretations...
Howls & Sparks. Two days later, Bevan once again reversed himself-and gave further thought to the high position he hopes to hold. Time was when Bevan said it would be "madness" and a "crime" for Britain to explode the H-bomb. Now he opposed a resolution to outlaw H-bomb tests...
...that will enable these divided lands for the first time in modern history to have a vast, tariff-free trading zone comparable to the U.S., embracing six nations and 160 million people. At the same time (see below), the most powerful of Western European nations, West Germany, voted, to outlaw the return of cartels in favor of free enterprise and competition. It did so largely at the insistence of one man-Minister of Economics Ludwig Erhard. West Germany's new law, though it was not all that Erhard hoped for, was big news in a Western Europe that talks...