Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rogers, heavily occupied with civil rights legalisms during his two-year tenure, last week angrily tongue-lashed the Mississippi grand jury that ignored evidence uncovered by the FBI after the lynching of Mack Charles Parker last April (TIME, Nov. 16). The grand-jury performance, said he, "was as flagrant and calculated a miscarriage of justice as I know of." The grand jury's failure to return indictments for the Negro's murder showed the need for a new federal "criminal statute" to protect civil rights. "The nation will be shocked at the State of Mississippi's refusal...
Such practices make railroads the most egregiously featherbedded industry in the U.S. Not all examples are so flagrant, but the railroads declare that featherbedding costs them $500 million a year. Now, in the middle of negotiating new contracts, the roads have served notice that they intend to replace the feathers with some spine-stiffening substitutes -at the risk of a strike...
...standard wage contract. Management demanded change because the rules foster "featherbedding and loafing." The management demand solidified union ranks, raised howls that a change would let "stopwatch pirates come into the mills and set speed-up practices." Neither side made a clear case. Steel has no record of flagrant featherbedding; as compared to the same period in 1951, U.S. Steel produced a million tons more in the first half of 1959 while cutting its work force from 301,000 to 241,000. But by McDonald's own admission, at least 100,000 workers in the steel industry still...
...from the South. But we won't do it." Alexander P. Chopin, chairman of the New York Shipping Association, answered Bradley: "The public, which relied on the news of the extension to get thousands of tons of cargo moving toward the piers, have also been victimized by this flagrant violation of agreements. This may very well lead to one of the largest and costliest damage suits ever filed against a union...
...California to Washington, Texas to Michigan, and Florida to New York, more than 500,000 migrant farm workers, following trails of seasonal planting and harvesting, work and live in scrabbling poverty which Mitchell calls a "national disgrace": average earnings in 1957 of $892, hourly wages as low as 16?, flagrant violations of child-labor laws, substandard housing, dangerous transportation, inadequate sanitation and health facilities. And he thinks the Federal Government should do something about...