Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertainer in a Wild West saloon. He would take Russian-born Mischa Auer, cast him as an expatriate Cossack with a will to be a cow hand. He would take U. S.-born James Stewart, cast him as an easy-talking, no-gun sheriff who brings law'to lawless Bottle Neck, routs its bad men by using his head instead of his trigger finger. Producer Pasternak allowed that he might turn out something new in the genre...
Still, increasing numbers of educated people believe that we should do all we can to help the Allies. Keeping technical neutrality for the benefit of a lawless German government incapable of treating even its friends fairly is fatuous, and those who care for truth and for peace can no more defend Naziism than welcome other loathsome diseases. Fortunately for those who would rather have others stand in front, the Allies need airplanes more than men, so we need send no soldiers, certainly none who do not want to go. It would be decent to ourselves to send munitions free, most...
WASHINGTON--Martin Chancey, secretary of the local unit of the Communist Party, asked Attorney-General Frank Murphy today to investigate the "lawless, terroristic and dishonest," actions of the Dies Committee...
...professor, are bad from the beginning, others worse, with time and change. Unless someone dares to violate such laws and leads others to disregard them, they are not repealed, block progress. Sample bad laws: Prohibition, antigambling, anti-birth control. Professor Dunlap's list of history's lawless heroes: Jesus Christ, Margaret Sanger, John Brown, Robert E. Lee, George Washington (crime: treason against Britain), several other unnamed U. S. Presidents...
Four years ago John Vincent Lawless Hogan, a plump, soft-spoken radio engineer, got a license to operate a small experimental television station in Long Island City. To accompany his experimental television broadcasts Engineer Hogan used phonograph records. Because he could not think as well to jazz, Engineer Hogan used symphonic records. Not many people were equipped to receive his television broadcasts, but many radio listeners tuned in on his symphonic accompaniments...