Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daugherty himself once expressed it, he knew from the beginning that because of the circumstances attending the appointment Harding gave him, he was destined to be the 'goat' of the Harding Administration. Knowing that, to think that he would commit a crime would argue such a combination of cupidity together with lack of ordinary intelligence as is utterly impossible to believe about as intelligent a man as Daugherty...
...evils arising out of our unjust economic conditions, such as business depressions, hard times, unemployment, poverty and the fear of poverty, bad housing conditions and the crime, vice and disease due to these conditions, are the result of the private ownership of the earth and the appropriation of its products...
...They are guilty of negligence in a petty way. But should they suffer the same penalty as those who through sheer neglect of work or lack of intelligence have failed to get their two C's and a D? I think not. Why not make the punishment fit the crime and forbid any cutting among the offenders? HENRY W. ABBOT...
What will follow next week? Possibly more peace--due this time to Premier Macdonald who rather milleniaristically states that the nations must disarm. Yet all points to another competition. The race is on. History sticks to its bad habit of repeating itself--and the punishment fits the crime...
...rich-quick bootlegger is almost a thing of the past . . . The withdrawal of non-beverage whisky during the calendar year of 1923 was only 1,696,360 gallons as compared with 27,381,365 gallons in 1919." Senator Ferris of Michigan: "Any survey of crime, especially growing out of the use of alcoholic liquors, ought in itself to convince the most skeptical that Prohibition prohibits." Senator Harreld of Oklahoma: "Oklahoma was born a Prohibition state and is standing true to the faith of its forefathers." Representative Hill of Alabama: "Great as is the victory the course is not yet finished...