Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lynchings (TIME, Nov. 29) is well known, went out of office last week with this sentence in his farewell address: "I earnestly hope that law-abiding citizens will back up the prosecutions, that the jurors will have the courage to do their duty; that the perpetrators of this horrible crime may be brought to the bar of justice and dealt with as they deserve...
...York State, not wishing to have a gun-toting Herrin (Ill.) within its boundaries, decided to tighten its criminal laws last year. The result was a batch of legislation, known as the Baumes laws, which went into effect in July, which increase the penalties on various types of crimes. The most important provision is that which sentences a man to life imprisonment upon his fourth or subsequent conviction for a minor felony. This particular statute has been the subject of heated legal debate and was "finally upheld by the New York Supreme Court last month. No doubt, it has made...
...mother in this play poisons her daughter who is violently, permanently insane. "I have killed her," she stubbornly cries, although the mummer jury considers the murder kindly and exonerates her of crime. Then she enters a sanatorium to nurse the psychopathic children of other people towards a semblance of sanity...
...each a typewritten statement of 2,000 words-his decision in the baseball scandal of having given or taken bribes in 1917. The statement declared the players innocent. The "gift" from the White Sox to Boston in 1917 was an impropriety. It was not, said the statement, a crime. The Judge himself said nothing. With a twinkle in his eye he took his coat and hat off a hook, and went back to his hotel...
...Crime waves are all right in their way and to a certain extent should be encouraged as the symbol of a vital, throbbing, national prosperity. But even crane waves can go too far. And when we heard the other day that several of our old baseball favorites have been caught on the crest of one of these surges of iniquity, and that Cobb and Speaker are liable to be waived out of the American league we decided that the present side of sin has exceeded its legitimate high water mark. And being a man of prompt action we no sooner...