Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Equal Rights Bill will not become effective until Sept. 1. Last week, however, Pennsylvanians were beginning to realize how hard it would be to evade it. Discrimination of any kind will be a crime, punishable by a fine up to $500. a jail sentence up to 60 days. Two Negro women marched into the William Penn Hotel Beauty Salon, swankest in Pittsburgh, asked for a "powder test." usually given free. A white beautician told them it would cost $5 apiece. They showed their money. She said they would have to have an appointment. They asked for one. She finally said...
...legs, neatly sawed with the trousers, socks and shoes still on, were presently found seven miles away in a trunk. Evelyn Smith and her Chinese husband, Harry Jung, had vanished. For a week yellow men traveling with white women were detained all through the Midwest. The Press billed the crime as an endpoint of miscegenation. Fears were expressed that the "sinister Oriental," Harry Jung, had killed his white wife to make his getaway. This billing got a sorry jolt when prim-looking, thin-lipped, bespectacled Mrs. Smith was caught in a Manhattan rooming house. Mrs. Dunkel made more headlines...
Under the heading, "Crime, Price of Progress" in TIME, July 22, you record the story of two Negroes with frosted feet. There is the usual lack of insight in this story and the usual appeal to sentiment for the poor abused criminal. Both courts and publicists seem to have entirely overlooked the true philosophy and the correct attitude towards this class of criminal. To begin with, causation: I have had under my care in the past year three of these Negro types. All had frosted toes. This condition depending not on exposure so much as on the syphilitic disease...
...Bureau hoped that when the graduates of its new Police Training School went back home they would be so firmly stamped with the U. S. seal of approval that local bosses would think twice before detouring these men for mere political reasons, and that the national weapon for fighting crime would thereby receive a healthy boost...
...Bing-Bang." This was the machine that the New Deal, through Attorney General Cummings, dramatically turned loose on organized crime. In 1932 the Bureau had had the kidnapping racket dumped into its lap when Congress passed the ''Lindbergh Law'' which made snatching across State lines a Federal offense. And at "General" Cummings' request. Congress last year provided the Bureau with automobiles and armaments for the first time. About the same time the Bureau took command of another sector with the passage of an act enabling it to chase, catch and convict national bank robbers. With the passage of these laws...