Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lobbies Nazi jurists seemed confident that, with President Roosevelt and his New Dealers twisting the tail of old-time constitutional Justice, the U. S. delegates in Berlin would be the first to sympathize with rough & ready Nazi methods. They noted, for example, that U. S. citizens who committed no crime when they bought gold have since been made liable to punishment for holding on to their purchases. Taking the rostrum last week, German Minister of Justice Franz Giirtner announced that after Sept. 1 the punishment of "wrong acts" which were not crimes when they were commit ted will...
...Millis hates war. So strong is his hatred, so convinced is he that war is an inexcusable crime against civilization, that he blinds himself to the fact that men can be sincere in fighting for an ideal, whether or no that ideal be created by propagandists in pursuance of economic interests. Moreover, underlying the bitter sting which is present on every page, there is a current of assumption that had the war been won by Germany, the world would be little different today. Frequently Mr. Millis refers contemptuously to the idea, widely held in the spring of 1917 that...
...radios. Not a single newspaper. You can buy magazines, but they come to you with pages and articles torn out. Any article about crime or prison is torn out. No detective stories are allowed. Your letters come to you censored and retyped. Can't get the originals. Out of a three-page letter you get maybe six or seven lines...
...years the District of Columbia has permitted divorce for adultery only. Lately Congress passed a new law adding as grounds for divorce desertion for two years, voluntary separation for five years, a prison sentence of two or more years for a crime involving moral turpitude. President Roosevelt, whose ideas on divorce are liberal, signed the bill one afternoon last week...
...owner of some mines to which he is usually just going or from which he has just returned. Besides playing golf, Jean Harlow likes swimming which she does every day in her own pool and a parlor game called "Murder Mystery" in which whoever is "it" mentally constructs a crime which the other players try to solve by asking questions in turn. Because a smudge of dust is as visible on her hair as a thumbprint on white paper, she visits her hairdresser once a day for a shampoo. She dresses quickly, uses few cosmetics because they irritate her skin...