Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pouch, President of the National Association of Credit Men; William E. Knox, President of the American Bankers' Association; C. K. Woodbridge, President of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World; Governor Silzer of New Jersey; Judge Ewing Cockrell of Missouri, one of the organizers of the Missouri Crime Survey and son of the late Senator Francis M. Cockrell; Attorney George Gordon Battle, and, of course, Judge Gary himself...
...distinguished company was there to organize a national movement for the reduction of crime (TIME, Aug. 10). Mr. Wickersham brought in a report of a committee on organization. It provided for a National Crime Commission, an informal body of prominent citizens, to be headed by a chairman, who should select a small committee, a finance committee and proceed by indirect means to a war on crime...
...bank runner. He was promoted to bookkeeper, then teller. He heard of a new bank opening in Manhattan (the Astor Place Bank) and by sheer persistence worried its cashier into giving him a job. He was paying teller of that bank when he had his first experience with crime. A man came in with a check for $1,000 made out to God Almighty. He pointed a revolver at Davison's head and demanded the money. Davison read the amount aloud, and began to count out the money in a loud voice. Before he had finished, the bank detective...
Chairman F. Trubee Davison of the Crime Commission prompty set his organization in motion, secured the cooperation of prominent men throughout the country...
...shall first get an expert crime statistician and provide him with an adequate staff. ... It seems to me personally that murder should be our first consideration. We should find out all we can about murders in this country?not only how many there were, but wherein justice and the punitive agencies fell down, if they...