Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edgar Hoover's "G" men were running wild with Government money, and he advocated a $225,000 slash in the Department of Justice allotment for the coming year. Mr. Hoover appeared in person to defend these charges, and insisted that any cut in governmental appropriation would encourage a new crime wave, as well as seriously hamper the Department's work...
...inexcusable, especially when government money is flowing more liberally than it ever has before in the history of the nation. The "G" men are free from dirty politics and party "back-scratching" and for that reason the public can rest assured that money devoted to the cause of exterminating crime will not be spent unwisely. Funds extorted from the taxpayer should not be sunk in the briny waters of Passamaquoddy and withheld from the Justice Department's Bureau of Information at the same time. We are living in an administration of unprecedented liberality with public money and unwieldy bureaucracies...
...condemned man's cell, talked with him for more than an hour. Shortly thereafter the squat, hard-driving Governor sensationally re-opened the quiescent Hauptmann Case by publicly expressing doubt of the German carpenter's sole guilt, announcing that he had launched an independent investigation of the crime under New Jersey's famed small-town detective, Ellis Parker. The Governor charged State Police Superintendent H. Norman Schwarzkopf, a non-Hoffman Republican holdover, with having bungled the original investigation. He accused Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Democrat, of having conducted Hauptmann's prosecution at Flemington with bias...
...State colony for mental defectives at New Lisbon, N. J., had him ordered turned over to Mercer County (Trenton) authorities. By some mistake Wendel was committed to Mercer County jail, not on the 1931 charges, as planned, but on a charge of having murdered Charles Lindbergh Jr., the crime for which Hauptmann was to be executed three days later. In jail Wendel flatly repudiated his confession, said it had been wrung from him after a week's torture by three men who had kidnapped him in Brooklyn in mid-February. From Brooklyn, said he, he had been taken...
...these admirers, we are afraid, will be disappointed in "Manhattan Murder," the story of a man and a girl, plus one of the largest assortments of cops and robbers ever captured between the covers of a detective story. This complexity is further increased by the disconnected essay on crime methods which has been interspersed at an average of every five pages. The author is better than a middling fair lawyer in his own right and may be counted on to know what he is talking about--but the author should not talk so much in a detective story, supposedly filled...