Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...criminal, 16-year-old, moronic Aaron Adams, is unimportant to the story. So are his two little-girl victims whom he picked up on their way to school. What really matters, says Jackson, is the effect of the crime, as the tabloids play all its angles across the board, on the minds of you-and-you-and-you. Using an unimaginative hopscotch technique, he jumps from one character to another and back again, winds up with a notebook full of unconvincing case histories. Samples: ¶Handsome Jim Harron, a well-paid New York publicity man, is unnerved, then regenerated...
...hands, some kneeling and weeping," gathered to say goodbye to Government Secretary Robert Morss Lovett.* Officially he had resigned. His boss, Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, had not wanted to fire him. But the Dies Committee had charged him with subversiveness and Communist sympathies. Lovett's real crime was old-fashioned liberalism. It made no real difference that the U.S. Court of Claims later called his dismissal "a shocking and outrageous injustice" and that the U.S. Supreme Court eventually ordered his back pay restored. That day in the park at St. Thomas, Lovett's Government career had ended...
...Crime & Punishment. In Memphis, whoever robbed the Rev. John Maddox of his briefcase got a three-year collection of sermons for his pains...
George A. Weller '29, foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and a departing Nieman Fellow, acted as Toastmaster. He was introduced by R. Scot Leavitt '46, President during the Crime's actual anniversary year...
Joseph B. Keenan, chief prosecutor in the Japanese war-crime trials, noted happily that he was a much more popular author in Japan than ex-Premier Hideki Tojo, the No. 1 defendant. The published text of Tojo's defense affidavit had sold 5,000 copies, the Japanese version of Keenan's summation...