Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...technical crime: Disrespect...
...real crime: Communistic sympathies...
...Chief leave the congress without learning of the latest, distinctively U.S. contribution to the war on crime. It is an experiment for which Mr. Collier will personally expend $50,000. It is a series of advertisements which are to dominate the traction lines and billboards of New York and perhaps be extended to other cities...
...bringing of the trial in Washington, let it suffice to say that the jurisdiction over the alleged crime is legally in Washington; and that new evidence which had not previously been heard justified a new trial on entirely different grounds. The present charge is one of conspiracy to defraud the government, while the former one was the improper acceptance of fees while in public office. The action of the Department of Justice was entirely legal, and uninfluenced by persons outside the Department. The writer of your editorial has apparently forgotten an incident which took place early in this year...
Wheeler: two years at Leavenworth, $1,000 fine. The crime was use of the mails in fraudulent promotion of an oil company. The jury had deliberated 29 hours...