Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the U. S. Treasury Department suddenly dropped a dragnet across the land, snared more than 2,000 smugglers, dope peddlers, bootleggers and counterfeiters. Its aims: 1) to test the effectiveness of a nation-wide crime drive; 2) to train Treasury agents in concerted action; 3) to "impress the criminal element with the tremendous Federal powers against them"; 4) to show the nation that the well-publicized Department of Justice is not the only Federal agency that can catch lawbreakers. Pondered since last summer, the drive had been actively planned for a fortnight. One day last week the Treasury...
...plans for the cure? No,--they would have fought tooth and nail for the real cure. They would have attempted to influence those in power, and would have publicized their ideas vociferously until they had been heard. A depression is in many ways worse than a plague. It means crime, degeneration, degradation, poverty, misery, unhappiness, for millions of people...
Quick-witted, he replied: "There are so many reasons. With your permission I will write my answers." So decadent was the Manchu Court that audacious Wang, instead of being beheaded for the capital crime of attempting the life of the Prince Regent, was permitted to paint his reasons at such length and in such exquisite characters that His Highness was charmed, condemned Wang to mere life imprisonment from which he was soon released by the Chinese Revolution...
...mere unpractical philosophy. It is America's hope. Large body-guards bear mute witness to the possibility of the first part. As for the counterfeiting, criminals have recently developed the art to an almost perfect degree. Several dies were found for producing fifty cent pieces only recently. Perhaps crime will make its last beautiful gesture to us before it is obliterated from this country forever...
...talents and character commands the respect of the American people, who has not agreed with me that William Randolph Hearst has pandered to depraved tastes and has been an enemy of everything that is noblest and best in our American tradition. . . . There is not a cesspool of vice and crime which Hearst has not raked and exploited for money-making purposes. No person with intellectual honesty or moral integrity will touch him with a ten-foot pole for any purpose or to gain...