Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story goes that a young Eastern lawyer complained to an old Texas judge about the Texas way with crime. "I don't understand Texas justice," said the lawyer. "You will suspend sentence of a convicted murderer, but you wall hang a horse thief." The old judge rang a spittoon with a stream of tobacco juice. "Sonny," he replied, "I reckon that's 'cause we got men that need killin' but we ain't got no hosses that need stealin...
Viewing the general condition with considerable alarm, members of Houston's Junior Chamber of Commerce organized a group bluntly called the Murdertown Committee, sent observers to Chicago (murders, first-half 1957: 131) to study crime-prevention methods. Other Houstonians, scanning the city's growing, two-fisted boomtown bustle, agree that the committee will have to work fast. At week's end Murdertown notched up its eleventh murder for 1958-a good head start on last year's record...
...into a plea for rehabilitation, Carmelo J. Giambra, 31, interrupted, thanked him, explained to the court, "I do not want any mercy" for his part in a $23,775 bank holdup, insisted that "the law must be served," stressed that "I am happy and glad to pay for my crime," after being rewarded for his candor with a 17-year sentence, said: "Thank you very much...
...rebuttal, DeGuglielmo said he had not referred to a crime wave, but merely to a letdown in law enforcement. He criticized Sullivan, whose motion for 15 more policemen had just been passed and who now said the police could adequately handle the situation. "That's the kind of reasoning I have to put up with in this Council," he said...
Under gentle, scholarly Spike Canham, the Monitor has shucked many of its old customs, become lighter and brighter. Of late it has run stories about such long-taboo topics as organized crime, prostitution and homosexuality, not infrequently reports that a person has died rather than "passed on"-a sharp departure from World War I days when, it is related, a hard-pressed correspondent, described a battlefield littered with "passed-on mules." When it comes to profit, the Monitor has netted only $260 in the past 15 years; it firmly excludes a long list of advertisers it does not condone...