Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CHICAGO--Three German-American men were sentenced today to death on chargea of aiding a Nazi saboteur who already has been executed and the wives of the three were sentenced to 25 years in prison for the crime of treason which the court described as "the most iniquitous offense in the unholy list of crimes...
...Italy, the world's most pompous puppet show, an official radio broadcast warned that "to tremble in public is a crime against the community and the country...
...Army and Navy took more & more to murder in order to get their way. Byas describes in wonderful detail the killing of Major General Tetsuzan Nagata in the War Office in 1935, and the brutal February Revolt in 1936 which grew out of the Nagata trial. This program of crime was rewarding. The threat of assassination could be as effective as assassination. In the end, the military became Japan's collective Führer...
...Cracked a British reporter: "Russia has become the largest of the small frightened neutrals." In the first nine months of 1940 Russia shipped nearly 1,000,000 tons of oil and huge quantities of fodder and grain to Germany. Russian industrial production was ruthlessly stepped up (it became a crime for a worker to arrive more than 20 minutes late). Marshal Timoshenko put the Red Army through extended battle practice, stiffened discipline...
...other job on the program, "Through Different Eyes," is another of the series of flashback-crime affairs, ably narrated by that ace yarn spicler, Frank Craven. It's not too tough to pick the murderer and everybody has a whale of a time making him confess. Craven's presence assures at least one good acting performance, and his supporting cast flounders along without mishap...