Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literal object, may be true but as assertions, these beliefs do not prove that the amendment ought to be forthwith repealed. The argument that the youngest generation now alive will reap the benefits of prohibition is not without plausibility. The notion that the liquor evils as well as the crime wave have been over-emphasized by the press contains its grain of truth...
...same sort of magnetism that draws criminals to the scene of their crime must have drawn Appleby Hollisheimer to the steps of Memorial Hall. Inside Sanders Theatre was his class, was Rita Grundy, was Solomon O'Cabot--happy mortals all, oblivious of Appleby's existence, oblivious of all save the stirring words of Dr. Casey of the Boston Police delivering the Baccalaureate Sermon. He was carrying the Class of 1927 to a pitch of spiritual elevation which would carry them through life; some were already beginning to sob gently when...
...Chicago, crime laboratory, has evolved a new type of ruffian- the "muscle man," cousin-at-large of the "hijacker." The "hijacker" confines his activities to the bootlegging profession. He is the strong boy who lets his victim run rum, then robs him of it-or buys it at a low price with violence. "Muscle men" regard all weaker criminals as their prey. A "muscle man" exploit that came to light last week in Chicago, was the chaining of one Sappho Jo Lawro and his partner, one Jakie Adler, proprietors of the Midnight Frolics Cafe, to iron bedsteads, and keeping them...
...marked the initial appearance of the Vagabond in person at the Pops, although, during the last two weeks he has often urged others to attend, and wished that he might go himself. Be that as it may, as he sat at one of the tables with an accomplice in crime sipping near dear out of glass lily-sups, and munching pretzela to the tune of one thing or another, he could not help letting his imagination transport him some 3000 miles in space and some nine months back in time. For a few moments Symphony Hall was transformed. Instead...
Married. Rev. Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, 85, potent reformer; to Mrs. Eleanor Marx, 65, onetime companion of the first Mrs. Parkhurst; in Los Angeles. As president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, in 1891 he instigated the Lexow investigation of the New York Police Department. Richard Croker fled to Europe; Tammany Hall was defeated in the following election; Theodore Roosevelt was appointed Police Commissioner...