Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspapers and radio cover this kind of news. After the Mattson boy was murdered the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce publicly censured reporters and editors for "gross mistakes that many people believe may have prevented the return of this child unharmed" (TIME, Feb. 8, 1937). Last week crime news was worrying Tacomans again, but this time they were afraid they weren't getting enough...
...BLUNT INSTRUMENT - Georgette Heyer - Crime Club ($2). A blunt instrument finishes the philandering of a well-to-do English gentleman. Notable for amusing, effortless dialogue, engaging characters...
...Peace cannot be achieved by trying to fix fronts or trace artificial frontiers between Rebel and Loyal zones. That never! If any Spaniard even admitted that possibility he would be committing the crime of high treason...
...railways, highways and other projects necessary to get the dismembered Czechoslovak Republic reorganized and on its feet. As fast as they are mustered out of the Czechoslovak army, great numbers of recruits will be mustered into the Labor Service, and stern punishment was decreed for the new Czechoslovak crime of giving a man a "fake job," thus exempting from Labor Service...
...funeral of the Austrian Chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, murdered by Nazi conspirators in 1934, hollow-eyed, handsome Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, delivered a eulogy. Cardinal Innitzer described the killing as the "crime of a heathenish political group," flatly declared that "those who after these events are still supporting the Nazis are excluding themselves from civilization." When, four years later, Nazi conquerors rolled into Vienna, His Eminence allowed the swastika to fly over St. Stephen's Cathedral, signed a pastoral letter urging Austrian Catholics to vote Nazi in the subsequent plebiscite...