Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although no special announcement to the effect has been made, it is understood that Clegg comes to Harvard with the intention of interesting students who are graduating in June, in the prospect of joining the "feds" in their war on organized crime...
...State did not dispute last week that Prisoner Roiderer is a bona fide U. S. citizen, born in Bavaria in 1894, naturalized in Cleveland in 1922. Nonetheless the German State contends that this U. S. citizen could and did commit high treason against the German Reich. Such a crime is possible only under the New Justice. Outside Nazidom it is a basic legal axiom that no man can commit treason against a country...
Hunterdon Country Courthouse, Flemington, N. J., Feb. 8--The woman who loved Isidor Fisch most--his sister,--came into this courtroom today to try to sponge from his tombstone all stains of suspicion that he committed the Lindbergh crime...
...Crime and Punishment (adapted by Victor Trivas & Georg Schdanoff; Wolfson & Sherry, producers). Fyodor Dostoievsky's solemn sermon to the effect that murder will out has been dramatized before and will doubtless be dramatized again. This particular adaptation of the Russian narrative is no less sombre than its predecessors. As Raskolnikoff, the impoverished student who murders a woman pawnbroker with the mad idea that money stolen from her will right a number of wrongs, Morgan Farley is about as wretched a figure as "Ma" Lester, the itinerant dustbin of Tobacco Road. Actor Farley rolls his eyes in terror, clenches...
Obviously, a work which requires of its readers much leisure cannot be presented in other than skeleton form within the conventional stage-time limit. But for those who might regard acquaintance with the bare story of Crime and Punishment as a social accomplishment, its present dramatic version may be recommended as a convenient "trot...