Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State of Massachusetts executed Sacco and Vanzetti for murder, but only two years later the Encyclopedia Britannica recorded that ". . . public opinion of the world felt the execution had taken place less upon the evidence than for the crime of holding extreme opinions." Today there is a more insidious movement spreading over the nation than the red hysteria that engulfed the early twenties. "The crime of holding extreme opinions" becomes a graver offense each day as more and more individuals do not express their true political beliefs for fear of economic and social organization...
Characterizing the Taft-Hartley law as "the perfect crime" against the cause of labor, Lee Pressman, general counsel for the Congress of Industrial Organizations, last night attacked the recent act section by section before a tightly-packed Law School crowd in Langdell Court. Pressman appeared as the guest of the University chapter of the National Lawyers Guild...
Among Dr. Pick's patients: a man with a broken nose and mastiff jowls, who took to crime, he said, after his young son remarked: "Daddy, you look just like a bad man. Why don't you change your face?" Dr. Pick changed his face, and daddy is now a law-abiding delicatessen dealer...
...should recognize with humility that the cinema does a great deal more than the church to keep young people off the streets and out of the saloon bar. Perhaps gangster films have led to some increase in juvenile crime, but the normal child cheers the forces of the law.... It is no part of the church's duty to abolish occasions of temptation to the few if their general effect is salutary. Gangster films bring the element of adventure into the drab routine of a city...
...novel and worth-while entertainment, but its producers could actually have gone much further with the social idea and left out some of the unnecessary, dramatic flairs. Minor complications arise at the outset for the audience and the detective when a harmless soldier, who is first suspected of the crime, bemoans the absence of his wife. He eventually ends up very happily with her, to the greater glory of the institution of marriage and the lesser glory of plot continuity...