Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the climax to one of the greatest blots on our Christian civilization. The infidel Moors were never guilty of these degenerate excesses when they ruled Spain, and it was ironic that their descendants were hired to besmirch their fine record. . . . This crime of Franco's against the children of his own race reminds us that the spirit of the Inquisition is still alive in Spain...
...England, pale & frail after seven months in prison (to which Nazis sent him on a charge of sex perversion), Tennist Baron Gottfried von Cramm said that the U. S. had denied him a visa to compete at Forest Hills. Reason: U. S. law bans people convicted of a crime involving "moral turpitude...
...rushed through Parliament a bill forbidding British banks to transfer former Czech gold and credits (estimated as high as $100,000,000) to the new masters of Prague. Devised to protect British creditors, this measure pleased Britons more as a means of preventing the criminal from profiting by his crime...
...week in Leipzig, his home city. Adolf Hitler sent a wreath. Kladno was first given 24 hours, later 48, to produce the killer or else suffer "further measures." The Czech Unity Party, only Czech political organization still existent in Bohemia and Moravia, declared such "acts of force are a crime against the entire Czech people," called upon Czechs to cooperate in apprehending the slayer. The Czechs wanted it understood that murder was not in their plans. While Kladno wondered what further punishment was in store for it, in Prague it was feared that the next German move would...
Charlie Chan in Reno (Twentieth Century-Fox). A beautiful divorcee gets more than she bargained for, and Charlie Chan II (Sidney Toler) adds another tour to Twentieth Century-Fox's private Baedeker of Crime. He gets the culprit, but there seems to be more chin than Chan in the process...