Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crime & Sociology...
Father Joseph Fitzpatrick's view on Puerto Rican crime [Oct. 26] is the typical head-in-the-clouds attitude of sociologists, who spend too much time in the library and not enough time in the streets. Irish and German immigrant crime a century ago is a historical fact but not an excuse for today's crime. Father Fitzpatrick and other sociologists should present workable solutions to immigrant crime instead of simply apologizing...
Centuries ago the Triad Society was a kind of Chinese freemasonry whose aim was "to obey Heaven and act righteously," but the Singapore offshoot of Triad has degenerated in recent years into a Crime Incorporated of young toughs who terrorize the city. The occupying Japanese temporarily checked the Triad during World War II by lopping off fingers for even the smallest thefts, but today the Triad boasts a small army of extortionists and pimps, gunmen and gamblers, organized in four cadres identifiable only by number and their tattooed insignia on the backs of the Triad's 10,000 initiates...
Carefully avoiding any suggestion that his suggested nonprofit network should be Government controlled, Lippmann argued that its virtue would be its freedom to produce "not what will be most popular, but what is good." TV violence, degeneracy and crime, said he, would be replaced by "effective news reporting, good art and civilized entertainment...
...Story. The great names of American crime cross the screen like targets in a shooting gallery. Despite the soul-searing domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart, the picture's documentary air is always absorbing...