Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tired Dr. Fry was pleased last week with the ten-day assembly's action in urging a ban on nuclear-weapon tests, voting to study the effects of mixed marriages with Roman Catholics and to strengthen Lutheran efforts in Latin America. But he was most pleased of all at the theses. "At Lund, Sweden, in 1947, Lutherans learned to march together," he said. "At Hannover, Germany, in 1952, they learned to worship together. At Minneapolis in 1957, they learned to think together...
Public Works. Prosperity is a key weapon in President Fulgencio Batista's struggle to remain in office. When the strongman moved into the presidential palace in 1952, he inherited an economy weakened by a huge sugar surplus that was depressing world prices. Batista slapped on acreage quotas, gradually unloaded the excess, even shipping sugar to the U.S.S.R. Prices started a gradual climb, now stand 30% higher than in 1953. He imposed greater discipline on the country's labor unions, granted wide tax and tariff concessions to new industry. In a calculated gamble, he began spending part...
...their assault on the Administration's civil rights bill, Senate Southerners attacked the injunction as a sweeping and arbitrary weapon. In fact, it is well hedged with safeguards. A court-though it may issue a temporary restraining order when it deems it necessary to move promptly against the threat of damage or disorder-may issue a permanent injunction only after a public hearing at which the respondent has full rights of counsel, cross-examination and confrontation of witnesses. When it is issued, the injunction demands only that the defendant stop offending. Contempt convictions for failure to comply with injunctions...
...defendant "carries the keys to his prison in his own pocket," i.e., he can free himself by complying. But if the offender persists in evading the order, the court may sentence him for "criminal contempt." Then he no longer carries the keys. If Congress took the criminal-contempt reserve weapon away from the courts, the offender could put off complying without running any risk...
Heirloom? In Detroit, Fred Whiting, charged with carrying a concealed weapon, explained: "That blackjack really isn't mine, your honor. It belongs to my mother...