Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what we want most" includes not only individual interests but group interests. What do we intend to do about education, about our form of government, about the control and development of industry about immigration, poverty, crime, disease? Every man takes some part, or refuses to take a part, in forming our social policies in these matters. At elections in professional and trade associations, in church activities, these problems confront us. No one can escape the results of social policies about the criminal law, the housing regulations in cities, the management of the public schools. Therefore social ethics is concerned with...
...deal with facts: Yes. With the facts of human nature, human civilization and human degradation the facts of poverty and its causes, of crime and its treatment, of immigration, its policies and results, of labor relations, race relations, internal relations. But we study not only what is, but what, in view of these facts we plan to do about it, with a view to a fuller more reasonable, more decent and happier life...
Meanwhile, also, Air. Sinclair was indicted for refusing to testify before the Senate, but the trial has not been called. Such a crime, if it was a crime, has the mildness of water compared...
...made. Last week, a loud squeak broke the long labor peace. U. S. marshals in West Virginia arrested four members of the United Mine Workers. They refused bail, were jailed. Warrants were issued for other labor organizers and even for the master of them all-John L. Lewis. Their crime, if any, seems to have been an attempt to unionize a section which, by legal agreement, is nonunion...
Otis next contended that capital punishment has no deterrent effect upon crime. Fain pointed out that capital punishment works poorly, since jurors are afraid of depriving a man of his life and perhaps a man who is innocent. "For 180 murders, there is but one execution," he said, "and society needs a punishment which can be enforced more university...