Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon shot up over 1% of gross sales, took half of food retailing's narrow profit. The desperate grocers screwed up collective courage, got police to start arresting guilty customers and releasing their names to the press. Theirs was one of the few open moves against a corrosive crime that already takes at least $250 million worth of goods from U.S. supermarkets each year...
...editors of the CRIMSON go into a figorous training program today for a coming series of softball games with various local organizations, among them the CRIMSON Network (WHRB) and the Crimson Printing Company. Although the Crime has been established as a solid 11 1/2-1 favorite in both contests, the rigors of training will prevent publication of the breakfast table daily on all Saturday starting tomorrow...
...most extraordinary scenes the twentieth century can afford for future generations will be the sight of Bertrand Russell in his cell in Brixton Prison, serenely composing his technical Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy while serving the sentence imposed by the British government for the crime of being an active pacifist during World...
...even heroic efforts by Negro leadership could only dent the Negro crime problem, because essentially it is a white problem. And it will remain a severe problem until Northern whites, private citizens as well as civic officials, recognize that Negro crime is basically a symptom of a failure in integration, and start attacking discrimination in the North with the same fervor they show in arguing for civil rights in the South...
...Slam enough doors in a man's face, and he may break one of them down," said San Francisco's Negro Deputy City Attorney R. J. Reynolds last week. The way to reduce the percentage of Negro crime, he believes, is to stop slamming the doors, or at least, as a start, give the Negro a new hope that maybe the next door won't be slammed. Spreading the message of that new hope, he says, is a responsibility that Negro leaders will be very glad to assume...