Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city a comfortable retreat. But the old reciprocity of the O'Connor regime lapsed. In little more than three years St. Paul has been the scene of three major kidnappings, and last year Attorney General Cummings singled it out as the "nation's poison spot of crime." Belatedly last week this hooligans' happy hunting ground was presented with a chance to clean house. The chance came in the form of 385 phonograph records...
...Penal Code was in part authorized. None of it having been published, Minister without Portfolio Hans Frank explained: "German lawyers will be filled with joy to hear that the former principle of 'no punishment without law' has been replaced by the principle 'no crime without punishment.' This should obligate German men of the law to a new gratitude to Der Führer. For the first time the concept of 'love of Der Führer' has become a legal concept." ¶ Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick received final authority to settle all German church disputes...
Detective story addicts to whom the solving of crimes is a task essentially romantic last week found little romance in the memoirs of onetime Superintendent of Scotland Yard George W. Cornish. To professional sleuths crime detection is work like any other, hard, slow, tedious. Cornish of Scotland Yard is enlightening for its revelation of day-to-day police routine, its honest avoidance of spurious melodrama...
Spilsbury Sniff. Never a crime of "Spilsbury calibre" was the "Rats" murder but last week Britain's real-life Sherlock Holmes, the great criminal pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury (TIME, March 4 et seq.), was called on a case exactly to his taste when the potman of a pub in South London went nosing down into a cellar disused for years. Next door to the pub is the Old Surrey Theatre, now being torn down but in Queen Victoria's day the mecca of thrill-thirsty folk who loved to see dramas of ripe, purple blood and thunder...
...telephones, one painted white. When the white one rang, a desk editor seized it in a flash. It was a private wire from a police department switchboard, whose operators were on Howey's secret payroll. Detectives never could understand why they nearly always found Herex newshawks at a crime scene before them...