Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their time. They also spin webs on their feeding grounds, and, finally, cocoons from which the moths emerge. They may be inactivated by naphthalene in flakes or moth balls, sunlight, air, cedar chests, mothproof paper bags, temperatures below 40°. Under the Federal Insecticide Act it is a crime to sell (in interstate commerce) anti-moth products which do not live up to their claims. Last month the Food & Drug Administration had fines imposed on a Chicago chemical company for shipping 1) moth-proofing crystals which analysis showed to be 58% common salt; 2) colored and perfumed naphthalene blocks which...
...Director Charles Joseph Scully headed the Department of Justice's bomb squad in New York for years, helped bring about the deportation of Anarchist Emma Goldman. Director Scully is very proud of his rogue's gallery of leading U. S. commercial racketeers. This type of crime is lucrative, involves no physical danger, is seldom punished with jail sentences of more than three years. Typical commercial racketeers are the Brothers Minos and Pericles Ziongas, Greeks. Once they set themselves up in Newark. N. J., as Euro-American Corp., obtained credit with impressive but wholly fraudulent financial statements, proceeded...
...caught, commercial racketeers can usually be convicted for mail or bankruptcy fraud, both Federal offenses. But in retail trade a creditor has no recourse against a dead beat except to sue. It is no crime to charge a mink coat, then fail...
MURDER OF A MATRIARCH-Hugh Austin-Crime Club...
MURDER IN FIJI-John W. Vandercook -Crime Club...