Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read fashion magazines. That is the very reason why I expect TIME to keep me informed. Report whenever there is anything to report. Whether that is after an interval of six months or six weeks or six days, neither I nor you can foretell. You also report a crime once in a while. But you do not have a weekly crime page. Apply the same criterion to fashions, from both points of view, from that of the hygiene of living and from that of beauty...
...Crime. State Senator Caleb H. Baumes of New York stated the view of crime which underlies the drastic criminal code written by him and lately enacted in his state. "Crime as a problem is mainly concerned with the hardened repeater ... an organized business comparing favorably with the methods employed by our best concerns. . . . The modern bandit shows no mercy whatsoever. . . . These Baumes laws have been passed in order to put real backbone into the work of the judiciary...
Provisions. In general the proposed laws provide penalties for foreigners (Italians naturalized in other lands are considered as for- eigners) and Italians who violate their provisions outside of Italy. For example, a person who commits a crime against the "personality" of the state, or counterfeits the seal of state, or falsifies Italian currency, or who "offends" on foreign territory the rights or polit- ical interests of Italy or of an Italian subject, is amenable to the statutes. Moreover, any foreigner tried and acquitted, or convicted and sentenced in the country in which the crime was committed may be retried...
...before her marriage, Rodney H. Brandon, Moose executive secre- tary, explained the order's new concrete program. "Let's broaden our horizon!" he declared. "Let's remember other people's children as well as those who are children of Moose!" To do so, thought Mr. Brandon, would stamp out crime...
Last Efforts. As last week opened, counsel for the defense, led by Lawyer Arthur D. Hill redoubled their activities. Their clients had been subjected to a shock which, psychologically and philosophically speaking, was easily the equivalent of any crime they might have committed against society. Society, through its legal machinery in Massachusetts, had started to bare the skins of Prisoners Sacco, Vanzetti and Madeiros for the touch of Death and then, with a reprieve of which the melodrama was a cheap insult to whatever dignity human life may have, virtually mumbled: ". . . Live on for twelve days longer. Our mind...