Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...payment for the G. A. McKinlock Jr., Dormitory 91,087.92Estate of Norton Perkins: "In Memoriam to my father, the late E. H. Perkins Jr." 50,250.00The Rockefeller Foundation: For the School of Public Health 137,250.00The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial: Industrial Psychology 12,000.00Survey of Crime and Criminal Justice 25,000.00International research in the social sciences 7,490.77Study of individual industrial efficiency and research in the field of business 20,000.00The Charles Sprague Sargent Memorial Fund for the Endowment of the Arnold Arboretum 222.345.00Estate of Martha L. Sargent (Mrs. Howard Sargent...
After dining 250 strong, in the Hotel La Salle, the citizens listened seriously to Chief Justice W. E. Brothers of the Criminal Court, to State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe, to members of the Chicago Crime Commission, to Police Chief Hughes, all of whom said they were doing their duty and quoted figures to prove it. Lawyer Strawn, ever judicious, sought to mitigate the officials' embarrassment by saying heartily, "I do not believe crime here is greater than it is in any other city. In 36 years in Chicago, I have never been held up, robbed or racketeered...
...other citizens present remained serious. Thomas E. Donnelley, Chairman of the Citizens' Committee, considered the report with the cold eye of a printer who knows a good deal about statistics and announced with Irish candor his belief that Chicago crime had not been materially stamped out. Mr. Donnelley said: "I know from secret sources that criminals in Chicago are watching this meeting and wondering whether this is the beginning of a rising of citizens. If it ends in talk, praising this person and that person, saying we are better than we are, we will be missing the greatest opportunity...
...heels of President Coolidge and Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone (see CRIME), the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor last week repaired to Miami, Fla. The committeemen put their heads together, bloody but unbowed, to decide what they would ask Politics to do for Labor this year. Time was no object at their sessions and during the week only one major demand was decided upon, that being a demand already outlined at the A. F. of L. Convention last autumn in Los Angeles, namely, for a Volstead Act amendment to permit 2.75% beer...
...modern literature, is usually to be taken with several grains of appraising salt. Hosannas for Hemingway and disproportionate praise and condemnation is the result in the majority of cases where some young Harry Hansen or Isabel Patterson takes stook of the latest books. This, however, is a less cardinal crime than any other tendency...