Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...length TIME'S pages we behold. Succinct, inclusive, accurate and clean. Artist−you clarify the passing scene In crispy English, vigorous and bold! Poet−your magic fire illuminates Th' event with connotations of old time! Serene, you parry while some fool berates. Shaking accusing finger at your crime− Printing one item that he deprecates−Swearing he will no more subscribe to TIME...
...Debs: "under no circumstances will I apply for pardon I made no defense when I was tried because I felt that I had committed no crime. If I should apply for pardon it would be in my eyes an acknowledgment that I was wrong when I stood my ground for the right of free speech in the United States...
...week the Federal Judge granted her a writ of habeas corpus, releasing her from the grip of the immigration service and allowing her to go undisturbed about business or pleasure in the U. S. The fact which induced him to release her was simply that adultery is not a crime in South Africa...
...record shows that she committed an act which many of us doubtless think involves moral turpitude, but an act is not a crime always and there is no presumption that this act was a crime. The Congress did not contemplate that the act, if a crime in this country, would be ground for exclusion. If that were so, every man who sold or manufactured liquor in other lands would be barred from the United States, for our courts have held that violation of our prohibition laws involves moral turpitude...
...think it is well settled that the act, to become ground for exclusion, must be a crime under the law of the place where it was committed. This record shows nothing to indicate that. There is no presumption that the act was a crime, and the affidavit that adultery is not a crime in South Africa settles the issue definitely...