Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Crime Commission, to which national figures volunteer their energy, intelligence and time-Frank Orren Lowden as chairman of a subcommittee on pardons, penal laws and institutional correction; Newton Diehl Baker as chairman of a committee on rehabilitating criminals and acting chairman of the whole; Franklin Delano Roosevelt as chairman of a committee on legal education; F. Trubee Davison as executive committeeman -last week published a report by Mr. Lowden's committee. Written by Commissioner Louis Newton Robinson, experienced professor of economics and criminology, this report set forth, as prime cause of crime's prevalence...
Chief of Police Michael E. Hughes of Chicago having announced that he had stamped out a great part of his city's crime (TIME, Jan. 30). Chicago has been peacefully humdrum in recent weeks, except for a few episodes, such...
...Pineapples" are convenient, effective and easy to obtain in Chicago, where bomb-making has almost the status of an industry. "Our people are being terrorized," said President Frank Joseph Loesch of the Chicago Crime Commission last week. Police Chief Hughes could only say, "I'm helpless. . . . If I had 3,000 more policemen we could stop those bombers...
Last week newspapers paid a debt to crime. It is one of their greatest news assets but seldom do editors have a chance to say nice things about men who have committed crimes...
...story to the court; after that he sat listening; acute observers noted that he often pared his finger nails. The brothers and sisters of Alma Gatlin supported her contention that, in point of fact; Mrs. Petty had killed their father in self defense and would have confessed the crime before her death had she not been overcome by coma. Two expert lawyers were imported to prosecute, and Alma Petty Gatlin, who had once been voted the prettiest girl in the village, sat and listened to one of them, a thin man with an acidulous voice, calling her story "thin...