Word: scofflaws
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...same time, he turned his back squarely on migratory birds; until last week he not only had to regulate hunting of migratory wild fowl, but promulgate rules concerning transportation and sale of their drumsticks, wings and necks (in case a wily scofflaw dissected them). He also shucked off responsibility for toll-fixing on roads and trails in Alaska. This was just a beginning; abolishing obsolescent chores such as the mint commissions is still to come. Eventually he hopes to confine presidential decisions and paper work (he signs from 600 to 800 papers a day) to matters more directly concerning...
Across the land the scofflaw was king-and he had many subjects...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, dropped it on the bed and looked out the window. Other Hollywood tycoons got into the same strange habit. Somehow or other, Willie Bioff, a pimp turned labor racketeer, was always there to scoop up the bundles, split them with a fellow scofflaw, George Browne, president of the A.F. of L. Stage and Movie Operators Union. Willie and George acted for a gang of Chicago mobsters. The motion-picture industry thus parted with a million dollars...
...Commissioners, the history of New York City has been studded with drives against crime and corruption. In 1871 it was Samuel Tilden versus Boss Tweed, in the early 1900's Rev. Charles Parkhurst versus Boss Richard Croker, in the late 90's Theodore Roosevelt versus gamblers and scofflaw saloonkeepers, in 1902-09 William Travers Jerome versus vice and gambling, in 1905 Charles Evans Hughes versus insurance companies. Charles S. Whitman's sensational exposure of official corruption in his prosecution of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal in 1912 put Whitman...
Belle Livingstone, aged scofflaw who was sentenced to 30 days in jail for bootlegging in her swanky three-story saloon in Manhattan's 58th Street (TIME, Feb. 16), opened a new resort outside Reno, Nev. Converted from a dairy barn, the place is decorated with pictures of monkeys; a troupe of dancing Negresses perform monkeyshines. In a nearby outhouse there...