Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Often, of course, Hitchcock realizes this. Occasional implicit grotesqueness along with the horrible images, the examples of practicable black magic, and the demonstrations that crime does pay after all clearly take advantage of what books can do and screens cannot...
...House of Lords in bitter opposition to the House of Commons, a bewigged clerk intoned La Reine le veult, and the Queen wishing it, a bill restricting capital punishment became law. Under the new Homicide Act, murderers convicted in Britain will be hanged only if their crime...
...Press, a collection of his splenetic attacks on the British press lords (TIME, Dec. 26,1955). Churchill argues bitterly that a kind of journalistic Gresham's Law is at work; that honest newspapering is being drowned in a "deep and lush and fast-flowing river of pornography and crime." Williams disagrees. The average tabloid, says he, offers "neither worse nor better'' entertainment than many movies, TV shows or books; the "whole idea of what a free press ought to do and be" is constantly changing. What is the mid-century role of the press? Says Williams...
...story Kasper told the committee brought the wrath of his own faction down on him, but his activities have so far incurred no censure from the responsible citizens of Florida. Kasper admitted to a crime which is an affront to the segregationist ethic: he had danced, traveled, and corresponded with a Negro girls, whom he had met in his Greenwich Village bokstore: to the Ku Klux Klan, of course, all this equals miscegenation...
Wall Street Lawyer John Cye Cheasty (rhymes with hasty), 49, got a long-distance phone call from an acquaintance, Attorney Hyman Fischbach, onetime counsel for a House subcommittee investigating crime in the District of Columbia. At Fischbach's request, Cheasty flew to Washington, where Fischbach explained that Teamster Hoffa needed some "special help" in connection with the McClellan committee's investigation. Hoffa, said Fischbach, wanted to plant an agent on the McClellan committee staff and Jack Cheasty, a former Secret Service agent, Internal Revenue agent, and naval intelligence commander (he retired in 1952 with a $5,500 disability...