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Word: crimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edmund Davie Fulton, Tory member of Canada's Parliament from Kamloops, B.C., had never read a crime comic until some of his worried constituents sent him a batch two years ago. Shocked by the gory yarns, 33-year-old Tory Fulton, onetime Rhodes scholar and wartime infantry officer in Italy, began a crusade. He thundered for Parliament to outlaw such comics, most of which are published in Toronto from mats shipped in by U.S. publishers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Outlawed | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Last week, Parliament outlawed crime comics. The broad new law provides up to two years' imprisonment for anyone who "makes, prints, publishes, distributes, sells" or possesses "for any such purposes" a comic which "exclusively or substantially comprises matter depicting pictorially the commission of crimes, real or fictitious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Outlawed | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Thomas K. Holmquest: Harvard Radio Network, Business Staff, Crime Box, Eliot House Dance Committee, House Christmas Plays, P.B.H. Ticket Agency, Ivy Films, Senior Editor of Yearbook Publications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 50 Chooses Class Committee Today | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

White Heat. James Cagney returns to crime in a violent gangster melodrama with psychiatric trimmings (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Perfect Crime. In Electra, Texas, while P. H. Loftin was standing on a street corner someone stole his hat off his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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