Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horrors." Among Britain's most militant anti-Reds is able Sir Hilton Young. He wants Soviet lumber excluded from Great Britain under the Foreign Prison Made Goods Act of 1897. To prove that Soviet lumber is convict-hewn, Sir Hilton recently submitted to the Prime Minister sworn statements by three Russian refugees that they as "convicts" had been "forced" to cut wood in Russian forests, had witnessed "horrors" (TIME, Sept...
...reported in the U. S. last spring. But the U. S. press, while feeling obliged to report the book's horrid insinuation that Mrs. Harding did away with her husband, at the same time took pains to set forth the unsavory record and reputation of Author Means, ex-convict. Not so the Vancouver Sun, which announced its feature with a sheet made up like the front page of an unspeakably yellow journal, topped by a shrieking headline: "WAS PRESIDENT HARDING MURDERED? ... Did His Shellfish Illness in Vancouver Provide 'Alibi' for Subtle Poison Plot? ... 'I HAVE...
...Declaring: "The Federal Government is assisting local authorities to overcome a hideous gangster. . . . But I get no satisfaction from the reflection that the only way this can be done is for the Federal Government to convict men for failing to pay income taxes on the financial product of crime. . . . Every single State has ample laws that cover such criminality. What is needed is more enforcement of those laws...
...Receiving the famed Indian poet, Sir Rabindranath Tagore. ¶ Announcing that the Treasury Department regulation against imports of convict-made goods was not intended to start a trade conflict with Russia. ¶ Conferring at the White House with Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic Senate floor leader, concerning expeditious passage of relief and appropriations...
...Learned from acrid Chancellor Snowden that in the last six months nobody has accepted his "invitation" to supply the Government with "evidence sustainable in law" that any Soviet produce is being produced by convict or forced labor...