Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said he: "Without meaning to be so, any Democratic Governor is, perforce, the good-will advertising, the front man, the window dressing for what is in part, at least, a thoroughly corrupt machine. . . . That politics should be in disrepute in this, the greatest of democratic countries, is a crime against the people. The science of representative government should be, it must become, our most honorable profession. For politics is the lifeblood of democracy...
Earnest A. Booton, professor of Anthropology and Curator of Somatology, has been named to give the second series of Lowell Lectures, and will give eight talks on "Crime and the Man," beginning on Friday. The discussions will be given on Fridays and Tuesdays at 8 o'clock in the evening...
MURDER À LA STROGANOFF-Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon-Crime Club ($2). Further bizarre caperings among the Russian troupe who survived A Bullet in the Ballet. While embellished by such trimmings as Wodehouse dialogue, the plot is sufficiently mystifying to satisfy addicts who like them straight...
...PUZZLE IN POISON - Anthony Berkeley-Crime Club ($2). Arsenic poisoning of a retired English engineer, solved by one of his friends. Style: deft; characterization: good; ending: clever...
Automatic Canteen Co. of America distributes candy, nuts and gum through vending machines which its 1,000 employes must call canteens because their president, Nathaniel Leverone, secretary of Chicago's Crime Commission, thinks vending machine sounds too much like slot machine. Of the 200,000 canteens in 44 States, about 98% are in factories. During the nine years his company has been going, President Leverone has noticed that canteen sales accurately reflect factory employment. Last fall, when the automobile plants began shutting down, canteen sales in Detroit fell from top of the list to the bottom. Once President Leverone...