Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna, where his lawyer-father insisted on his taking a law-degree, Moravian Ernst Lothar spent more time writing poetry than in study. After graduation he pursued both law and literature, made both contribute to his successful trilogy, Power Over All Men. Now, more & more literary, more & more lawless, he attempts in his novels to hybridize fancy with realism, intuition with not necessarily legal truth...
...cooperate; they have forced brokers and others in the sugar trade to open their books to the Institute's detectives and accountants; they have induced or compelled beet sugar refiners (none of whom belong to the Institute) to adopt many of their rules, thus restricting their competition. Item: these lawless practices helped sugar refiners to increase their margin of profit 30%, take it out of the public's pocket. To prove their point Lawyers Fly & Rice compared two refiners' profits for 1928, the Institute's first year, with 1927. Biggest, American Sugar Refining Co., jumped from...
Perhaps no city in America today presents so pitiful a spectacle of collapse as does Chicago. A few years ago it was a prosperous, arrogant and supremely lawless city, unashamed of its past, confident of the future. The beginnings of decline which were evident even then, were ignored by both citizens and government. Those were the great days of William Hale Thompson, Chicago's illustrious mayor. Swept into office on the highly pertinent policy of "America First," he offered a three-ring circus rather than a government. Mr. Capone and his boys had their notoriety, but the spotlight...
...Vagabond has ever been perplexed and a trifle annoyed by the reverence in which mankind holds the might and majesty of the law. By definition he is a lawless fellow. Not one who goes about with an evil smirk doing all manner of evil, but merely one whose life is bounded by no laws. He walks where he lists and he talks when he lists. It is therefore difficult for him to understand the idle gossip which he continually hears about "law and order." He has seen and heard many evidences of the power of the law. A drunken, riotous...
...supplies are being unlawfully dissipated and wasted and the land and royalty owners are being robbed by unscrupulous and lawless producers, transporters and operators. ... An organized and entrenched group of operators are in a state of insurrection against the conservation laws of the State and are in open rebellion against the efforts of the constituted civil authorities to enforce such laws...