Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...importance equal to the recently passed wire-tap law in bringing our crime fighting up to date, Lumbard said, is a statute allowing grand juries to compel witnesses to divulge all information that is asked for. He explained that while such a law would mean witnesses could no longer decline to answer on the grounds of the Fifth Amendment, a witness would be granted immunity on any answer that might incriminate...
Equipped with this kind of reasoning in the '50s, why did Karl Barth come out so boldly against the Nazis in the '30s and after? His answer: "Naziism . . . was a mixture of madness and crime in which there was no trace of reason." Barth seems to think that Communism is different, and, like other European neutralists, he is fond of the old balancing act equating Russian Communist "materialism" with U.S. capitalist "materialism." The evils of Communist living, furthermore, are all too apparent to Barth from where he sits in Western Europe. Only "a few Western European Communists...
...tennis score, and had to flee Rome. He found refuge at Malta, where he painted a portrait of the Grand Master and was rewarded with a knighthood. But then he assaulted a fellow knight and was imprisoned. He escaped, made his way to Tuscany, was arrested for a crime he had not committed. Soon afterward, he died of fever. He was then...
Animals on the Mantel. The apartment where Artist Statsinger conducts her own explorations, near Chicago's crime-blighted Midway, is painted dead white. The low, simple furniture is her own handiwork, and her clothes closet is crammed with carpentry tools. Ranged along the hearth and mantel are geometric little "animals" which she makes of papier-mãché and wire for relaxation...
Jackson, who has been a member of the Supreme Court since 1941, served after the second world war as United States chief counsel in the Nuremberg war crime trials. Before his appointment to the bench he had served as general counsel of the Internal Revenue Bureau, Solicitor General, and Attorney General of the United States...