Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, Grynszpan, still awaiting trial in Paris, unsuccessfully petitioned to be allowed to join the French Army "so that I could kill some more Germans." And last week in Germany, his race had once again to pay for his crime. All during 1939 Jews in Germany have frantically sold their property at ruinous prices in efforts to pay their $400,000,000 fine. On Aug. 15 they made "final payments," but last week Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk announced that this has proved "not enough...
Psychologists tell us that war, depression, crime, labor troubles, and race prejudice have their roots in mental processes. But they have been loath to apply their convictions to the correction of social error. Rather they have chosen to measure intelligence, the speed with which rats learn how to thread a maze in order to reach food and the like...
...phone girl had to call CBS in Manhattan, whence the program had been coming, to find out. The next hour she spent replying: "The murderer was Mr. Wiggins. . . . The murderer was Mr. Wiggins. . . ." Next day WBBM called back another thousand who had left their numbers, reporting Mr. Wiggins' crime with trimmings...
Ellery Queen, as the vast U. S. crime club well knows, is the pen name of two quirky fictioneers named Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay, cousins who look as much alike as oboe players. Ten years ago Manny was a movie publicist, Fred an ad agency man. Now their Ellery Queen's published adventures stack 16 volumes high, he has been in the movies, on the stage, on the lecture platform, and this year in radio he has been both actor (on MBS's Author, Author) and writer...
...Stalin." Next Herr Hitler went on to "point out some facts that cannot be refuted by the scribblings of international press liars." "It has . . . been proved that only as an entity is this central European space capable of existence, and whoever breaks up that entity commits a crime against millions of people," declared Herr Hitler. If people did not like the way a "tolerable order of things was established in Central Europe," then Herr Hitler could only answer that it was not the "method but the useful result that counts"-i.e., that the end justifies the means. But "thanks...