Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston-born, Davis Wilson at 20 went to Vermont as an assistant to the attorney general in a crime crusade, was set upon and stabbed by thugs, killed one of them. Later in Washington he was "assistant" for four years to the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Chaplain of the U. S. Senate. In 1905 he turned up in Philadelphia to fight the Vare machine, became Secretary of an independent Republican group backed by Owen Wister, Owen J. Roberts, and William C. Bullitt, father of the present U. S. Ambassador to Russia. In 1912 with Princeton's late Bill Roper...
Finally the Court sentenced Captain Krivonosov to death, after calling him a "coward." To sentence the Party official to death would have made too much news. He got ten years. Nine sailors received various prison terms for the crime of "observing capitalistic traditions." The seven who had warned their captain that he would hear from Moscow were acquitted...
...Gordon Slugg, financier, have emerged to harass Annie's foster-parent, Daddy Warbucks, who continues to be a model of industrious honesty. He has begun to market a remarkable new building material when Slugg and Claptrap rouse a mob to burn the factory and kill the inventor. That crime ruins the enterprise and Daddy Warbucks. Daddy behaves with restraint and fortitude, saying only, "Slugg's a crook but he's not important. What is important is that so many people can be fooled by a Claptrap who'd casually ruin a whole people in venting...
Said Dr. Giirtner: "We have substituted for the outworn maxim nulla poena sine lege ('no punishment unless law has been infringed') the more efficacious nulla crimen sine poena ('no crime left unpunished'), regardless of whether or not law has been infringed." "For the German judge as for the private citizen," continued the Minister of Justice, "the Nazi philosophy of life will be the guiding light. . . . Every clause in the penal code will have a 'danger zone.' Whoever moves in this sphere will do so at his own risk. . . . Wrong may exist, accordingly...
...interest had been keen as to what he would do in the case of one Wilhelm Keim, a youth sentenced to have his head chopped off for murdering his sweetheart. Commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment last week, the Realmleader observed: "Keim was not wholly responsible for his crime." Nazi jurists commented that the Keim killing was nonpolitical, recalled that Realmleader Hitler has never interfered with a political beheading. Notably Der Reichsfuhrer refused to spare beauteous Baroness Benita von Berg, famed aristocratic German stooge of a clever Polish spy (TIME...