Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...murder of two Socialist editors, Somogyi and Basco, which occurred in February, 1920* That so serious a charge could go unchallenged was, of course, impossible. The Government ordered the arrest of M. Beniczky, but not on the charge of accusing Admiral Horthy. He was allegedly arrested for an old crime of slandering a politician, for which he had been sentenced to 14 days in jail. This weird procedure created almost as great a sensation as did the charge against the Regent...
...lost its glamor; and. last week, Dr. Erdman was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, succeeding Dr. Macartney, signifying truce. The General Assembly set to work: An overture to excind from the Church the liberally inclined Presbytery of New York was withdrawn. Resolutions for the Volstead Act, against crime, were passed. Unanimous encouragement was given to a plan to erect a magnificent church in Washington to be the centre of the faith. Said Mr. Bryan: "It is a great pleasure to endorse something that will pass this Assembly unanimously." He added that he had had two residences...
...days of the happy and cosmopolitan Jubilee are gone forever. It is impossible at present to effect an entrance without a birth certificate, a marriage license, or a writ of habeas corpus. Freshmen themselves can't get in. The rules have become so rigid that every year a small crime wave sweeps over Cambridge at Jubilee time. The following incidents were the result of last Friday's festivities...
...other is that crime cannot pay dividends commensurate with its risk. The yegg at the safe, the thug at the holdup, the gangster in his running fight-always he must have all the luck on his side if he is to escape the gloomy, bitter penalty of the law. So say the advertisements under their challenging caption...
This caption was not only a new idea in crime prevention; it was also a highly original use of the word "you." When advertisers use the second person, they have reference to any and all. Of course, Mr. Collier was addressing himself only to criminals, past-master and incipient...