Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court victory abolishing segregation in Washington restaurants. Brownell followed un with unpublicized conferences with businessmen and city officials, helped bring about integration in the parks, playgrounds, theaters and other public places of the nation's capital. A Justice Department brief helped persuade the Interstate Commerce Commission to outlaw segregation on interstate trains and buses. Brownell invited Southern transportation-company heads to Washington for behind-the-scenes (backroom) conferences about transit segregation in their cities. Result: more than 20 Southern communities have killed Jim Crow without fuss or fanfare...
...Third Republic; in Lyon. Elected mayor of Lyon at 33, a Senator at 40, witty, erudite, pipe-puffing Herriot became a Senate rival to the fiery Georges Clemenceau; with British Socialist and Visionary Ramsay MacDonald, introduced the "Geneva Protocol" into the League of Nations, a first international attempt to outlaw aggression; canceled (1932) the German reparations agreements and plunged France soon after into such deep financial troubles that despite his efforts France repudiated its U.S. debts. He irresolutely stuck to Marshal Petain's Cabinet in 1940, but two years later protested the twisting of the constitution into a dictatorship...
...General Le Van Vien is one man who could well afford to regard the lifting of a few million francs' worth of uninsured gems as petty thievery. Not long ago he ruled supreme as czar of the underworld in French Indo-China. The sixth son of a rural outlaw who built a modest fortune on stolen water buffalo, Le Van Vien showed early promise of becoming a successful chip off the old block. In the early days of the Sino-Japanese War he left home to fight with Chiang Kai-shek's armies, but he soon found that...
...Among them: Jesse James As the Outlaw (1921), Jesse James Under the Black Flag (1921), Jesse James (1927), Days of Jesse James (1939), Jesse James at Bay (1941), Jesse James Jr. (1942), Jesse James Rides Again (1947), Jesse James' Women (1954), Jesse James v. the Daltons (1954). A coming attraction, Hell's Crossroads, was originally titled I Was Jesse James' Next Door Neighbor...
...Earp Producer Robert Sisk: "Earp gets slapped down occasionally. He's a very human person." As its bible for Frederick Hazlitt Brerinan's scripts, the Earp show uses Stuart N. Lake's biography, whose critics may have nicked it (said one: "Fictionalized glorification of a tinhorn outlaw") but have riot killed it as a major sourcebook for Westerns since 1931. Says Sisk: "We've got to slice the truth pretty close to make it last, but we stick closely to the biographical details...