Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington last week, a federal grand jury indicted Major General Bennett E. Meyers for perjury and for suborning Bleriot H. Lamarre (who was also indicted) to give false testimony before the Senate War Investigating Committee (TIME, Dec. 1). Ferreting out crime was not the committee's job, but it could now boast of having brought two major war-purchasing scandals to action in criminal courts. Its other case-that of ex-Congressman Andrew May and the Garsson brothers-had resulted in a conviction. The Government's chief crime-detection and prosecuting agency-the Department of Justice...
Matsukichi, a slender fellow with a long, egg-shaped face and large, gentle eyes, gravely told of the life that led him to crime. "I am," he said, "the child of my mother by some former connection of hers. I did not go too much to school." When he was 18, Matsukichi stole his boss's sandals and then some money. For this, he spent his first eight months in jail...
Mayor Denny's letter to TIME illustrates perfectly that complacent attitude of Marion County officialdom toward crime which is culminating in an orgy of rape and murder. Decent citizens won't tolerate...
...story she told later, five men seized her, drove her away in an auto, beat her and raped her. Five men of mixed Hawaiian and Asiatic blood were arrested and accused of the crime. When they were let out on bail, Thalia Massie's Kentucky-born, Annapolis-bred husband, with the help of Thalia's socialite mother and two enlisted men, kidnaped one of them-a massive man named Joe Kahahawai. They shot him and drained out his blood in a water-filled bathtub...
...Louisville Times had also been thinking about its responsibilities. The Times (like many others) now omits "Negro" from its crime-story headlines, the Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors reported last week. Some time ago, the paper had started printing the names of juveniles arrested for vandalism. Result: "A marked decrease in private-property loss through increased parent discipline." Last but hardly least, the Times prints "names of women charging rape if [the] defendant is found not guilty, [thus] providing justifiable protection for men from frustrated women...