Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three having met at Stresa, with Russia standing in the doorway hoping for a belated invitation, Great Britain commits her historical crime of refusing to take drastic steps. Her government, headed by doddering Ramsay MacDonald, shaking on its last legs at home, dares not do anything definite...
...Finally, clergymen everywhere tingled to the words of Pope Pius XI, who addressed a consistory of cardinals in Vatican City this week (see p. 36), said in Latin: "We consider it would be a horrible crime, a foolish manifestation of wrath, if peoples again took arms one against the other to spill blood, brothers against brothers, so that destruction and ruin would be sown from the skies, on land and at sea. ... If anybody should commit this nefarious crime-and may the Almighty put far from us this sad forecast which we on our part believe will not come...
...five years Carleton Beals has had a fine time writing books to prove that U. S. money is the curse of Latin America. In his tract on the Capitalistic Rover Boys in Cuba, entitled The Crime of Cuba, he lambasted the then U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim whose family had given Baiter Beals a Guggenheim Fellowship to study imperialism in Mexico. Fact was that last week Journalist Beals had not made up his mind about the present regime of President Carlos Mendieta and Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista...
BULLDOG DRUMMOND AT BAY-H. C. McNeile- Crime Club ($2). Further fighting, swashbuckling adventures; well up to previous standard...
...height of the crime wave a new justice named Henry Fielding came to the Bow Street police court. More active than his predecessors, he began driving out at night in an innocent looking coach filled with armed deputies. Bands attempting to hold up the coach were ruthlessly shot down. At the end of a few months dozens of highwaymen had been shot off the roads and the crime wave was subsiding...