Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office, chucking out politicians who seek to corrupt his legal talents, Cagney joins the Department of Justice to avenge a gang-slaughter comrade. This Sir Bedivere of the Bronx finishes training school with characteristic verve, just in time to help Uncle Sam grapple with a middlewestern crime wave. Chicago becomes a hades of riddled corpses, black Cadillac touring cars, and sub-machine guns. Other federal men, perhaps less gullible than the screen loving public, express their amazement to find that Cagney grew up in New York side-by-side with most of the first ten public enemies, and that...
...Miami Biltmore Hotel last January two masked men stripped Mrs. Margaret Hawkesworth Bell, onetime Follies dancer, of jewels insured at $185,000, took watch and cash from her companion Harry Content, 74-year-old Manhattan broker. Two petty thieves were shortly picked up, charged with the crime. For lack of identification one was let off. The other was given a short penitentiary sentence. Meantime Miami's chief of detectives turned up with the jewels, announcing that someone had obligingly tossed them into his automobile...
...week Federal agents suddenly clapped Scaffa into jail on a charge of having violated the Stolen Property Act by transporting the Bell jewels back from New York to Florida after the robbery. Two days later their net widened to include four notorious Broadway characters charged with complicity in the crime. Scaffa's attorney, his mind whirling with headlines about interstate commerce, commenced to argue that the Supreme Court's Schechter decision had invalidated the Stolen Property Act as well as the NIRA. The judge promptly shut him up, fixed Scaffa's bail...
This week's Wednesday review day program at the University is worthy of marked attention, offering two of the year's outstanding films, "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and Claude Rains' excellent "Crime Without Passion." The merits of both these pictures have received widespread acclaim with almost universal approval from the critical sections of the press...
...getting too wild to suit his simple tastes. With Italy, Germany, and Japan forming a harmonious trio off in a corner thumbing their noses at the League of Nations, France and Great Britain would find that they had something more important to worry about than the responsibility for a crime committed in remote Africa...