Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also had more crime-in Chicago, barometer of the national mood for larceny and gunplay, the law was broken on 38,533 occasions, 10% oftener than the year before. There were 29,000 traffic deaths, the highest national total since 1941's alltime record...
...then condoned the shooting by saying that it saved a lot of trouble. Said he: "The ordeal of bringing a young and innocent victim of rape into open court and subjecting her to detailed cross-examination could easily be as great an injury as the original crime. This fact probably accounts for a number of killings which might otherwise be avoided...
Thus last week, in a U.S. Navy court on Kwajalein atoll, a Japanese war crime on Wake Island in October 1943 was officially detailed for the first time. The victims: U.S. civilians, most of them from western states, who had been building a Navy base when the Japs took Wake four years...
...would-be-done-by approval for war trials like Nürnberg's: "Anyone, then, who exacts the expiation of crime through the just punishment of criminals because of their misdeeds should take good care not to do himself what he denounces in others as misdeeds or crime...
...turned on Kuomintang extremists in Kunming. He dismissed the city's garrison commander, General Kwan Lin-cheng. He sent his Vice Minister of Education, Chu Ching-nung, to make an inquiry and offer amends. For hurling the fatal grenades, two men were executed on the spot of the crime...