Word: crime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrible crime wave is now raging in Siam," cabled TIME'S Bangkok correspondent last week. "It is no wonder that King Ananda is taking a special interest...
...that attempts had been made "to cast a shadow and to discredit" members of its diplomatic staff. Cried the Embassy: "The sources of this slanderous information are the false statements of the former employe . . . Gouzenko, who has stolen money from the Embassy and who is indictable for the committed crime in case of his return to the U.S.S.R...
...nickname "Crime," by the way, apparently originated with a little pun with which the Advocate used to amuse itself. "Crime's Own" was supposed to sound like "Crime-on." Anyway, Crimeds adopted the tag, and have used it as a heading for newshreaks garnished with appropriate ed notes...
...Indulgent parents built the Lam-14LAMPY'S CARTOONIST looks in on the Crime in 1902 when the paper's ledgers began to be written in black...
...having an editorial policy forced the Service News to walk a tight-rope carrying a fine silk parasol. Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, president of the Crime in 1904, once said that he'd like to see a straight news sheet in New York City-- one carrying all the news but no editorials. In retrospect, the Service News provided a testing ground for that project, and the test wasn't entirely successful. Practically any newspaperman will admit that complete impartiality is unattainable, and a few instances will illustrate that the Service News, occassionally slipped off its tight-rope...