Word: criming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would perform a public service if you would devote space to debunking the myth that it is a crime against the Federal law to issue a check for less than one dollar (TIME, July...
...Kentucky State Park Commission to develop the property about Cumberland Falls into a park. Kentucky's only Republican high official. Governor Flem D. Sampson, had engineered the Cumberland Falls deal, had signed the contract. Kentucky's Demo-cratic Attorney-General James William Cammack cried tritely: "What a crime . . . that the rights of Kentucky might be bartered away for a mess of pottage...
Defense attorneys soon proved that the two younger women were lying, that they were out gadding with men the night of the alleged crime. Mrs. Lynn admitted she had perjured herself...
Agents. Politics caused the appointment as Dry Agents of unfit, untrained men "as devoid of integrity and honesty as the bootlegging fraternity." Most of them, said Mrs. Willebrandt, were of the "ward heeler type." "The Government is committing a crime against the public when it pins a badge of police authority on and hands a gun to a man of uncertain character, limited intelligence or without giving systematic training." Mrs. Willebrandt condemned "as atrocious, wholly unwarranted and entirely unnecessary some of the killing by prohibition agents." But she argued that 'leggers are often desperate characters; she cited the case...
Prof. Raymond Moley of Columbia said punishment should be made to fit the criminal, not the crime...