Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crime Commission of New York State (Caleb H. Baumes, chairman) has lately wrought upon U. S. penal codes the most signal changes of the decade. The Baumes grading of punishments for repeated felonies, topped off by life imprisonment for a fourth conviction regardless of degree, has been the model for tightened laws in many a state. The theory underlying the Baumes code is that crime is disease, that habitual criminals are chronic patients. Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York appeared before the Baumes commission a fortnight ago and elaborated its theory of crime still further. He made suggestions which...
...good party standing, can hold public office. The 98 who were thus "politically executed," last week, suffered this penalty because they are supporters of two World-known Russian statesmen who have tried to lead an Opposition in the Communist party but were recently expelled from it for that high crime. These two are LEV DAVIDOVITCH TROTSKY and GRIGORY EVSEEVITCH ZINOVIEV. Their names have been among the best known in Soviet history and there are dark reasons why they may become so again. Of the 98 expelled, last week, three rank as at least second string great men in Russia...
...Chief Michael Hughes of Chicago's police, who last week declared Chicago crime has decreased 53% since last year...
...estimated that 50,000 of them are on the Government pay rolls, drawing about $50,000,000 each year. . . . Nevertheless, they are too often subjected to thoughtless and inconsiderate treatment, unworthy alike of the white or colored races. They have? especially been made the target of the foul crime of lynching. . . . The Congress should enact any legislation it can under the Constitution to provide for its elimination...
Then, since another war must be avoided if we are to exist, how may the cataclysm be averted ? Senator Borah has said: "War must be declared a crime and be no longer recognized, in any way or at any time, as a legitimate method of settling international disputes." Author Kenworthy submits that if this attitude were officially and solemnly adopted by the most powerful nations "everything else would follow automatically...