Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public addresses I made over the period 1935-1941, I repeatedly said that I was not a fascist or, even, a defender of fascism. A lawyer defending a person on trial under a criminal indictment can defend his client without being smeared as a defender or an advocate of crime--even after the client has been found guilty. There could be no due process of law in criminal trials if it were otherwise...
...despair. Another murdered his brother to eat his brother's store of food. Hunger-driven men became thieves ... If I am wrong, please correct me, but I believe that for men to stay un-working with folded arms for six months in the year is a crime against society and against its foundation unit, the family. The Italian constitution states that men have a duty and a right to work...
Died. E. (for Edmund) C. (for Clerihew) Bentley, 80. British author of the classic crime novel Trent's Last Case, rated by the late G. K. Chesterton as "the finest detective story of modern times"; in London. While still a schoolboy, Bentley invented his celebrated verse form, the clerihew. Sample...
...That Zeidler has plastered the South with billboards inviting Negroes to Milwaukee, and is therefore responsible for a major migration (actually nonexistent) and a resulting crime wave (Milwaukee has one of the lowest crime rates in the U.S.). Says Zeidler: "There are many people in this town who will swear they've seen those billboards. When you ask them, they'll say it was a neighbor. When you ask the neighbor, he says it was a friend of his brother's. But they are always very specific: the billboards, flaunting my signature, have been seen near...
...Paterson, N.J., Matti Raivio was found guilty of stealing $193 from a liquor store despite his explanation to the court: "As a man trained as a saboteur and a spy, I would not commit such a childish type of crime...