Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Education at London settled the teachers' salary question by adopting Lord Barnham's proposal that women receive 83% of men's wages. Last week, the National Association of Schoolmasters met at Nottingham, condemned women teachers out of hand, said they were responsible for increase in juvenile crime, demanded that every boy over 7 be taught by men, declared that women were unable to understand or control boys...
...Baldwin's previous crime was a refusal to submit to physical examination under the Draft Law. Federal Judge Mayer gave him a year. He served ten months at the Essex County Penitentiary...
Besought by petitioning club women, The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Ia.), two weeks ago (TIME, Apr, 13), instituted an experiment of segregating its crime news to a separate department, similar to "Sport" and "Business," on an inside page. Last week, The Register announced that its experiment would be continued until opportunity might be had for "conclusive findings" on the merit of the plan. Also last week, whether by coincidence or following the lead of the Des Moines Register, other U. S. newspapers adopted trial crime segregation policies...
...Decatur, Ill., The Decatur Review segregated telegraphic crime news to a lower left-hand corner of the front page labelled "Crime." At the end of a week, said ministers: "Undue attention is called." Others commended...
...Fayettesville, N. C, The Fayettesville Observer announced that, for 15 days, it would refrain from publishing any crime news whatsoever in its columns. The readers were told that their opinions would be consulted, would determine whether or not the policy should become permanent...