Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traditionally law-abiding Canadians have long been proud of the fact that their country has had far less crime than its U.S. neighbor. Last week they began to wonder: a wave of murder and robbery had suddenly swept across Ontario. On both sides of the border people asked themselves if this was the start of the often-forecast, greatly feared surge of postwar crime...
...brutality, infamy, atrocity. Bataan, Buchenwald, Dachau, Coventry, Lidice were tea parties compared with the horror which we, the people of the United States of America, have dumped on the world in the form of atomic energy bombs. No peacetime applications of this Frankenstein monster can ever erase the crime we have committed. We have paved the way for the obliteration of our globe. It is no democracy where such an outrage can be committed without our consent...
Police Record. Mayor Anton Cermak, who was trying to get Chicago's mildewed reputation scrubbed up for the World's Fair, clamored for a crime cleanup. But the police turned up little except neighborhood rumor: a man named Ted Marcinkiewicz had threatened to hold up Vera's speakeasy. By Dec. 22, when detectives went to see a thick-lipped, black-haired youth named Joe Majczek, the case seemed to be falling apart...
When he was indicted for murder, his frantic family hired a lawyer whose name, they had seen in newspaper crime stories, a stocky, drunken gangland attorney named William W. O'Brien. The state's whole case rested on Vera Walush's testimony but O'Brien, unsteady with drink, did not question it. Joe pleaded for a chance to go on the stand himself. O'Brien waved him off. The jury's verdict: guilty -99 years in the penitentiary...
...marked inactivity around the visible parts of the "Poonsters' haunts led to the discovery of the tunnel, which was at the point of completion. Routed from his position with minimal losses, the "Poon, in the red-faced words of O. J. Zwoncus, ocC. said, "Hot, isn't it?" The Crime will use Lampy's tunnel for reconversion in its heating plan...