Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Osborne's lecture of last winter on "Crime and Criminals", raised much dissension among criminal experts of Boston and Cambridge, several of whom suggested that someone should answer the charges and statements made by the speaker. Accordingly, Captain Ainsley R. Armstrong of the Boston Police Department was mentioned to the Phillips Brooks House as a worthy opponent for Mr. Osborne in a debate to be held on the date of his approaching lecture...
...survey of crime in 1925 made in 25 cities by the United Press showed chiefly...
...course it's a mean dig on Lampy to get me to tell the Crime what I think of his first-attempt. They know I am an arty, or think I am, but what's to be said of scrawls? You can't fool me into thinking all the talent is gone and that bright pallettes and nimble wits and dashing brushes can't crash through with better dope than Lamp's Freshman sample...
There is talk of attempting to prove that Matteotti's slayers originally intended only to kidnap him, and that his murder "was more or less of a mistake." Both the alleged instigators of the crime and those accused of the actual murder will be prosecuted. But the former, even if convicted, will escape under the scope of the last general amnesty, which condones all political crimes except murder...
...Manhattan, loud, vituperative John Roach Straton told a vast throng that crowded the Calvary Baptist Church what he had beheld one morning in Chicago. Two holdups, no less?two foul crimes had Dr. Straton witnessed on a sunny morning while riding through the streets of Chicago. This statement was too much for some of the citizens of that fantastic city who averred that Dr. Straton must have come upon a family argument, or mistaken the antics of some street ragamuffin for a crime. It was too much for the Chicago Evening Post, which promptly offered the Baptist preacherman...