Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just the week for a meeting of the National Crime Commission in Washington, D. C. What looked very much like a grand scale attempt at jury-wangling was fresh on the docket, in the devious history of a successful and therefore widely admired oilman and a onetime Cabinet member (see CORRUPTION...
...speeches and interviews, delegates to the Crime Conference dwelt on the jury problem. Mr. Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U.S. Supreme Court flayed "jurors of weak intelligence" and the prevalent exemption from jury duty of "worthy" citizens...
Chairman Caleb H. Baumes of the New York Crime Commission, author of the current model for habitual-offender crime laws,? said: "It is ridiculous to exclude from a jury persons who read the newspapers. A citizen who doesn't read the newspapers is not an intelligent citizen and he probably is not fit to be on a jury." Mr. Baumes urged that judges be empowered to select juries, leaving counsel the chance to show cause why any selection is unsuitable...
...National Crime Commission, formed last year, is a voluntary body of citizens who propose to cauterize whatever social infection it is that gives the U. S. the highest crime temperature in the civilized world. In the report of its chairman, Richard Washburn Child, "the most important things" listed for discussion and improvement were: 1) Laws against traffic in stolen goods. 2) Compiling of crime statistics by all the states. 3) Prison labor problems. 4) The pardon & parole system...
Things that disturbed Mr. Edgerton and his colleagues were "the nation's $10,000,000,000 crime bill," and "socialistic encroachments" by the Federal and State governments, and the meddling by ministers of the gospel whose interpretations from the pulpit of business methods and affairs he dismissed as the comments of tyros...