Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief reason why there is in the U.S. the present widespread . . . outbreak of crime and disorder on the part of American youth (TIME, Dec. 14) is that the fundamental place of discipline in education seems to have been quite forgotten. . . . The rabbit is at liberty to run about the garden where his life is passed, and feed upon such plants, weeds and flowers as may attract him. . . . To call any such process education is in the highest degree absurd...
...thirty states have similar sweeping syndicalism acts on the books. In one of them the new crime of syndicalism is defined as "Any doctrine or precept advocating . . . unlawful acts of force . . . as a means of accomplishing a change in industrial ownership . . . or effecting any political change." These laws are a menace to civil liberties because they do not fix the line between permissible and punishable utterances, and because, though they seem at first sight to apply to thoroughly seditious persons, they can easily be interpreted by juries in times of excitement of include peaceable advocates of industrial or political change...
Ware rose to his feet again, this time to move that the Association sponsor a farewell party for the maids. The consensus of opinion seemed to be that each man should let the punishment fit the crime and that action be guided by individual conscience. The motion died from lack of a second. By way of an apology, Ware claimed that the motion was introduced only on behalf of a constituent, the whom we will leave anonymous...
NIGHT OVER THE WOOD-Hugh Addis - Dodd, Mead ($2). On a California rancho well stocked with borderline cases, one corpse turns up in a well, another is headless in a sinister wood lot. Crime and kidding are capitally mixed...
...punishment of Nazis, Foreign Commissar Molotov's Declaration for War Crime Trials, Oct. 14, 1942 (urging the immediate trial of Rudolf Hess) : "The Soviet Government . . . expects that all interested States will mutually assist each other in searching for extradition, prosecution and stern punishment of the Hitlerites and their accomplices guilty of the organization, encouragement, or perpetration of crimes on occupied territory." A decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet setting up a committee to list Axis crimes against Russia (Nov. 1942) specifically asks for trial of German Army commanders...