Word: crime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James ("Toothpick Charlie") Kilpatrick, 84, once one of the nation's most finished second-story men, was arrested (for the 32nd time) in Los Angeles. His crime: milking pay telephones. He had been extracting $10 a day from 100 telephones by plugging their coin-return slots with paper, letting nickels, dimes and quarters clog up inside until he came to collect them...
...objective . . . the changing by force or other unlawful means our duly constituted forms of national or state governments." As in the case of the Barnes Bill, this seems to be a superfluous piece of legislation since the Massachusetts Anti-Anarchy Act of 1919 already makes it a crime to advocate forcible overthrow of the Commonwealth while the Smith Act of 1940 provides ample teeth to deal with persons engaging in similar activity against the United States government. Certainly "credible evidence" should be sufficient for prosecution either under these acts, or under any laws referred to by the phrase "other unlawful...
...Crime in the Afternoon. In Venice, Calif., a burglar intent on robbing the home of Mrs. George Blackmer: 1) tied up Mrs. Blackmer and two visiting ladies, 2) answered the doorbell and bound Neighbor Kenneth Thompson, 3) untied one of the ladies to quiet a squalling baby, 4) answered the doorbell and tied up a salesman, 5) walked out, muttering...
...things differently if I were to come to Cambridge as a Freshman next September. But I'd still go out for the first Crime competition...
...must of course be impartial and objective. And yet nostalgia is inevitable. Each graduate has reverently and sentimentally laid a wreath on the warm memories of his own bright college years. "Why, don't you remember back in the old days when we used to fill up the Crime with . . .?" He tends unconsciously to brook no comparisons. That makes for difficulty...