Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven Communists had been indicted and found guilty under the Smith Act. The law, passed by Congress in 1940, and never finally tested by the U.S. Supreme Court, made it a crime to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, or to conspire to commit such acts. There was no question of an overt act of violence; no revolution had actually been attempted. Had the activities of the eleven then constituted for the U.S. what Justice Holmes once characterized as "clear and present danger"? The defendants had merely plotted and planned, taught and preached. No matter...
...weeks, more than 10,000 middle-class Czechs had been summarily arrested. Their crime was their failure to "find a positive relationship with our people's democratic order...
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer comes to Harvard today to begin shooting scenes in the Yard for its crime drama, "Mystery Street...
...withheld because of his age, was carrying a toy pistol. He was immediately released to his parents. Police thought that the pair's unusual behavior in the H.A.A. ticket office pointed to an attempt to size up the layout of the place before a holdup, rather than an actual crime...
...idea of the picture was first conceived by MGM early in 1949 when two investigators for the studio discovered the work of the Legal Medicine Depart- ment and thought it would be a good subject for a semi-documentary crime film...