Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition there is a hilarious Robert Benchley short called "A Night at the Movies," and--ssshhh--another of the "Crime Does Not Pay" episodes...
...last month captured Peter Anders, confessed kidnapper and murderer of Chicago greeting-card Manufacturer Charles Ross, took him from California to Chicago to be prosecuted by Mike Igoe's office. Candidate Igoe had himself photographed with Kidnapper Anders, got into the newsreels with a talk on Crime Does Not Pay. In Springfield, Boss Horner thereupon announced he would have nothing to do with Candidate Dieterich or Candidate Igoe, threw his support to Scott Lucas, who is now a Congressman...
...telegram to President Roosevelt former Republican Presidential Candidate Alfred M. Landon promised support on (1 the crop control plan, 2 matters of international policy, 3 the antimonopoly drive, 4 the war against crime, 5 dealing with the business recession...
Like the three Knights in T. S. Eliot's play who defend their crime while Becket lies bleeding on the steps of the altar, three college presidents in last Thursday's issue of the Cornell "Daily Sun" came forward to defend the censorship of college publications. They too spoke calmly and rationally. There was none of the fascist in their words; their arguments were built on the homely, utilitarian premises of present-day America. And the reader paused to re-examine those premises...
...days pass, the trail back to November 14 and before grows colder. Rumors are increasingly hard to follow up. Whether the occasion was a suicide or a crime may never be determined