Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People's Press, was convicted not for anything he had written but for something he had merely heard. At a public meeting a speaker cast a slur upon the Soviet Army. Rieffler failed to rise and voice an objection to the slur. His silence was held a crime to be expiated by four to ten years in Siberia...
...less a crime for a Public Bureau or Commission to divert the substance of Peter to buy the vote of Paul than it is for some Kreuger to convert the assets of a publicly held corporation to personal...
...know the author of your editorial "Crime of Omission," but, whoever he is, I do not believe that he is as familiar with the evidence presented at Nuremberg as the judges. In viw of this I fail to see by what reason he took it upon himself to decide that the three defendants who were acquited by the Court should have been convicted, and that others should have received heavier sentences than the Court saw fit to give them. We appointed the Court to decide these very questions, and we must now respect its judgment even...
...first time in history a distinguished panel of judges representing the aspirations of mankind for justice on an international plane, has solemnly declared that there is such an offense as a crime against the peace of the world," he added, expressing the opinion that the cause of international law had been greatly forwarded by the undertaking...
...from non-retail operations to cut down its retail prices. This, said the Government, made it virtually impossible for less integrated retailers to compete. But A. & P. argued that it was only making use of the usual chain-store economies to offer consumers lower prices. If that was a crime (and the court ruled that it was) then every other chain store and large industrial company which reduced prices by integrating its operations was equally guilty. (Indictments, almost identical with the one returned against A. & P., have already been filed against the Kroger Co. and Safeway Stores, Inc., next...