Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the House received this revelation with equanimity, Sir William nursed his suckling Scare and took it before a Conservative rally at Leamington, where he cried: "We are asked to put up with the subsidizing of crime by a Russian bank in this country. . . . There is a direct chain from the Russian bank to Communist agitators in all the great cities of this land. ... I have the most complete evidence...
...near the plant of La Voce Italiana in Scranton, Pa., injured three people, wrecked nearby shops, but did not damage the newspaper's press. Police searched for a possible connection between this and the bombing on New Year's Eve of the Scranton Sun, earnest crusader against crime, smallest English daily in Scranton, published by W. H. Hallstead...
Before a handful of auditors last night, the crime conditions of the country were thoroughly thrashed out by speakers representing Northwestern and Harvard Universities on the rostrum of Paine Hall. The debaters were arguing for and against respectively the question: "Resolved, That the principles of the Baumes Laws of New York be enacted in the several states...
Having measured the height of the "crime wave," and collected figures on the business of murder for 1927, Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, consulting statistician for the Prudential Insurance Co. of America, last fortnight indicted many a middle-sized U. S. city. The highest homicide rates (per 100,000 inhabitants) were found...
...what was all this about? What high crime or mighty treason loomed? A man from Mars would have laughed to learn that the whole impressive pother sprang from a few oaths and reprimands uttered by peppery Rear Admiral Bernard St. George Collard (TIME, March...