Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidly, upon the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the play has an absorbing story to tell. Mio Romagna's father has been executed for a murder which he did not commit. He was considered a dangerous radical and all the potent forces of conventionalized prejudice united to convict him of a crime which was actually performed by a gangster. The injustice which society foisted upon the father makes an outcast of the Hamlet-like son, forces him into a relentless, selfless pursuit for revenge; not for the joy of revenge itself but for the vindication of his faith in the truth...
...break, which is now believed to have taken place six weeks ago instead of two as announced. Further, a large proportion of the press look upon the whole thing as a hoax, one rumor being spread that a New York reporter had bribed a student to commit the crime for the sake of publicity...
...that rocked London commodity markets and brought losses of millions to British investors (TIME, Feb. 18, 1935). The "Pepper King," an Armenian-born British subject named Garabed Bishirgian, had been accused of issuing a securities prospectus which he "knew to be false in a material particular." Aiding & abetting this crime was the charge against John Henry Charles Ernest Howeson, one time Calcutta jute dealer who changed his name from von Ernsthausen before he became the world's undisputed "Tin King." Third defendant was a Howeson hireling...
...Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson. Editor Liggett's murder, therefore, put Governor Olson in something of a spot, whence he attempted to extricate himself by joining Liggett's widow in asking Attorney General Cummings to send Department of Justice agents into the State to investigate the crime. Attorney General Cummings, who once called Minneapolis a "poison spot of crime," prudently demurred...
...Cann had witnesses, too. These definitely placed him in a chair at the Artistic Barber Shop, far from the scene of the crime, well before 5:41 p.m. and long after. When his case went to a jury of eight men and four women last week, they promptly returned a verdict of not guilty...