Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McHenry County, Ill., a dog-catcher was the only one of 115 Republican public servants to escape indictment by the Grand Jury for mixing crime with politics. The indictments were held back until after election...
...take issue with you on the recent denunciation in your columns of degree language requirements. May these indispensible accountrements of our college curricula forever remain aloof to scurrilous attacks of "Crime" editors. Possibly you would rejoice if you could eliminate everything connected with cerebral activity from college life. Serlously, your intellectual status is gravely questioned after the inane castigation in Thursday's edition on a revered feature of the Harvard educational ideal...
Cheers and much pelting of flowers by the populace greeted the arrival of Mexico's most popular criminal lawyer, peerless Demetrio Sodi. In defense of the self confessed assassin Lawyer Sodi argued that his crime was purely political, and as such is punishable by imprisonment only...
...York State, it is no great crime to spit in a subway car or on the street. It is no great crime to wake sleeping citizens with ribald songs, to walk on the grass. According to the State statutes these are only misdemeanors, minor offences which are not felonies. For a misdemeanor, a man may spend at most a year in jail, pay a $500 fine...
...entitled "Sounding Brass" you make vague and indefinite attacks on those doing what they can to remedy, or at last to palliate, the conditions in our slums. Far from giving any constructive criticism as to how this may be done, although you big-heartedly admit that the "Prevention of crime and delinquency..is the surest way of creating social stability" and that "the intelligent have shown a wordy, but not ineffective interest in these matters", you offer no adverse criticism except general mudslinging. Picking on a statement of one who is attempting to help and really serve his fellow...