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Word: crime (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeks to establish absolute white supremacy in a country where whites are outnumbered four to one. Although the police committed many of the stupidities made familiar in other mass raids (seized from private libraries as possible evidence: Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor; Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment), they were able to seize the records of some 50 opposition organizations and groups, some of which are proCommunist. For all the police fanfare, no big Communist plot to overthrow the government was revealed. Some of the evidence did show, however, that many nonwhites, deprived of moderate leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: A Way with Transgressors | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...doesn't break the trend itself, it will become the nation's next drug. The public is being simply mesmerized by the same stories back to back. There is the boy-meets-girl formula, and then there is crime-doesn't-pay. The public will revolt -this is what happened to motion pictures." Coe this week begins his new NBC series, Playwrights Hour, with scripts by Chayefsky, Philip Wylie, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. His gloom may be deepened by the fact that his show will run opposite The $64,000 Question during its last half-hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Week in Review | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

Photography candidates will be especially welcome tonight and will be taken on a tour of the Crime's modern darkroom and its up-to-date engraving equipment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Will Welcome Competitors Again | 10/4/1955 | See Source »

...only elected two Democrats to state and federal offices in the past 15 years since the Omaha World-Herald has backed the G.O.P. candidates [Sept. 5]. If it really wants to test its power, it should try to elect a Democrat in this state, where it is practically a crime to smuggle a Democrat across the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...addiction. Each addict, in turn, is likely to become a pusher, widening the vicious circle. Reported Manhattan's General Sessions Judge Jonah Goldstein: 1) 99% of convicted narcotics peddlers are also users, and therefore peddling to insure their own supply; 2) 30% of all persons convicted of any crime are narcotics users, driven to crime because this is the only way they can raise the money ($15 to $100 a day) that they have to pay for the drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Narcotic Dilemma | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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