Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That an immigration statute be enacted to select immigrants for our needs, to exclude the unfit and non-naturalizable, to register all aliens resident in this country, to deport all aliens convicted of crime...
Criminal Identification?"The administration of justice would be facilitated greatly by including in the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice a division of criminal identification, where there would be collected this information which is now indispensable in the suppression of crime...
Lynching?"The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the Negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims...
...competition just announced by the Cosmopolis Press of New York. This organization will give a thousand dollars for the best play, motion picture scenario or short story adaptable into a play or scenario "on the American jail as a force in the creation of criminals and the fostering of crime" The judges of the contest will include Ludwig Lewisohn,-author and an editor of the Nation; Minnie Madern Fiske, well known actress; Carl Van Doren, literary editor of the Century Magazine; Dean George W. Kirkway, formerly of Columbia University; and Ida Clyde Clarke, associate editor of Pictorial Review. There will...
...course open to your Lordship in this matter, either you should execute the dictates of the British laws in India which you are appointed to administer in which case I suggest, if I may, that your Lordship ponounce on me the highest punishment enjoined by the law for the crime of which I am held guilty, or if your moral scruples do not permit you to do as the law you are supposed to administer bids you, please vacate the chair and come over to join me in this stand. I know and understand the British laws...