Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unintelligible structure of wires, metal joints, cans, an electric light socket, stove pipe and cellophane stood in the centre of the gallery, labeled Man of Manhattan by Pietro Lazzari. Ebbitt A. Levitz' Evolution of Crime showed a foreshortened dead man and, surrounding it, the story of how he got that way, beginning with a visit to a burlesque show. John A. Mapes, investment broker, contributed a delightful Bar Panel, The Fishing Party, showing Father Neptune and mermaids tugging from sea bottom on the line of a fishing boat at the top of the composition. Heightening the picture...
Heart of the political thunderstorm of 1936 is the question: Can anything be done under the different and often contradictory laws of 48 states to solve the major problems of farm, labor, social security, crime, conservation, relief? Last week the centre of that storm was over Chicago and, like the centre of many a storm, it was a dead calm. Democrats and Republicans, sitting side by side in conference, tackled that highly charged question. Yet there was hardly a flash of political lightning, for their object was not to get elected but to get results, not to break political heads...
Already in the few months that such commissions have existed they have gone quietly to work. Most active have been the commissions of the three adjoining States of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, which have had no less than ten meetings since last November on labor compacts, anti-crime measures, highway safety, milk control, stream pollution and water supply, relief for jobless transients, use of the waters of the Delaware River basin. No noteworthy compacts have yet been made, but legislative programs have been worked out and the wheels of co-operation have been started turning...
...Minnesota, the folks take real interest in the Tercentenary. Even Frank W. Meyer, the proprietor of the local meat market, realizes its power, as the following ad, greatly reduced in size, will testify. It appeared in the daily "Sleepy Eye Progressive" last fall, and was uncovered in the "Crime" yesterday...
...live under it. It therefore behooves this majority to organize both politically and industrially for the purpose of eliminating the old system and building the new. It is to this task that the students of today must turn themselves if it is their desire to do away with war, crime, unemployment, poverty, class conflict, politicians, and the other evil effects of a disintegrating order of society...